Representing women in parliament : a comparative study /
edited by Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble
- New York : Routledge, 2006
- xxi, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge research in comparative politics ; 14 .
Bibliography: p. [252]-272)
Introduction : patterns and practice in the parliamentary representation of women / Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble -- Women's electoral representation in Australia / Ian McAllister -- Women's representation in the Canadian House of Commons / Lisa Young -- climbing on : rules, values and women's representation in the New Zealand parliament / Elizabeth McLeay -- Women and Westminster : descriptive representation in the United Kingdom / Donley T. Studlar -- When women support xomen : EMILY's List and the substantive representation of women in Australia / Marian Sawer -- When do women count? : substantive representation of women in Canadian legislatures / Linda Trimble -- The'new world'? : the substantive representation of women in New Zealand / Sandra Grey -- The house turned upside down? : the difference Labour's women MPs made / Sarah Childs -- Descriptive and substantive representation in new parliamentary spaces : the case of Scotland / Fiona Mackay -- women and constitutional reform : gender parity in the National Assembly for Wales / Paul Chaney -- women in Northern Ireland's politics : feminising an'armed patriarchy' / Yvonne Galligan -- Paradise lost? : gender parity and the Nunavut experience / Manon Tremblay and Jackie F. Steele -- Conclusion : gendering political representation in the old and new worlds of Westminster / Jennifer Curtin.
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