Womenomics under Abe's Leadership Signs of Feminisation of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party?

Och, Malliga; Hasunuma, Linda

doi:10.1080/00344893.2018.1443973

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“…This perspective, however, is slowly changing. With the rise to power of prominent rightist womenfor example, Angela Merkel and Theresa Mayand an emerging interest by right parties in modernizing their party image in regard to gender issuessuch as Shinzo Abe's "womenomics" in Japan (Och and Hasunuma 2018) or the ideological renewal under Prime Minister David Cameron in Great Britain (Bryson and Heppell 2010)scholars have started to address women's representation across parties on the right. So far, many of these studies are single-case studies such as the Christian Democratic Party in Germany Wiliarty 2010), the Republican Party in the United States (Crowder-Meyer and Cooperman 2018; Kitchens and Swers 2016;Och and Shames 2018), or the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom (Annesley and Gains 2014;Childs and Webb 2012;Childs, Webb, and Marthaler 2009).…”

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Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change? A Comparative Look at Rightist, Political Women in Democracies

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2020

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy

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Feminist scholars and activists alike have asked for decades whether a democracy that excludes women from participating equally in democratic decision-making structures can be considered legitimate. One key argument states that equal representation is a question of justice: Women make up half the population and should thus be included as elected representatives (Dahlerup 2017; Phillips 1993, 2003). Others have argued that equal representation allows women's lived experiences, expertise, and ideas to be heard and included in the decision-making process, improving the lives of women, men, and children (Carroll and Sanbonmatsu 2013; Dahlerup 2017; Dittmar, Carroll, and Sanbonmatsu 2019). At the same time, we also know and have long acknowledged that women are not monolithic. Certain subgroups of women look and behave differently from the group at largeand indeed, it is unclear if we can even talk about a "group at large" (Young 1994). Attention has rightly focused in recent decades on women of color, either collectively or as individual racial/ethnic subgroups (

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