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Miss(ed) Representation? Gender, Policy Content, and Legislative Success in Australian Private Members' Bills

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This paper examines the substantive representation of women in Australian legislative institutions by analysing private members' bills introduced at the state and federal levels from 1997 to 2022. While Australia has made considerable progress in gender equality, persistent sexism and misogyny challenge the substantive impact of increasing numbers of ...
Isabella Vacaflores, Elise Stephenson
wiley   +1 more source

Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
wiley   +1 more source

From kindness to constraints: how spouses’ benevolent sexism impedes academic women in dual-career academic couples

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
This research tests the effect of spouses’ benevolent sexism on the career success of academic women in dual-career academic couples. Using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), in this study, the relationships between spouses ...
Jianing Dong
doaj   +1 more source

Breadwinner backlash: The gendered effects of industrial decline

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Low‐skilled men have long been vulnerable to globalization, decarbonization, and other forms of economic disruption. When shocks are realized, women often increase their paid labor to compensate for men's loss of income. We study how layoffs of low‐skilled men and concurrent shifts in workforce composition toward women affect voting.
Richard Clark, Roza Khoban, Noah Zucker
wiley   +1 more source

(Non)belonging and (un)freedom

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying Gender Bias in College Culture: Descriptive and Prescriptive Stereotypes, Hostile and Benevolent Sexism, and Cognitive Justification

open access: yes, 2012
The concept of equality between men and women is a controversial and important subject for continued business and psychological research. This study aimed to gain greater insight into gender bias by surveying college students.
Pikus, Krista
core  

“I got caught in my own trap”

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract For women ethnographers, research involving predominantly male far‐right activists can involve many challenges—ethical, methodological, and emotional. Drawing on interviews and long‐term participant observation, I reflect on my fieldwork with Polish far‐right activists in the UK.
Anna Jochymek
wiley   +1 more source

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