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Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards: Similarities and Differences in Quota Scenarios [PDF]
, 2020 In this article, the use of gender quotas to strengthen gender equality on corporate boards is explored. Examining national practices in ten European countries we provide an overview, categorizing the design of various corporate board quotas (CBQs) and
Mensi-Klarbach, Heike +1 more
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Thomas Spence on Women’s Rights: A Vindication
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2016 Thomas Spence, a defender of women’s political and economic rights, was one of the very few pamphleteers who advocated women’s suffrage in his times. Nevertheless, he has been criticized by some historians for his patriarchal, even reactionary outlook ...
Rémy Duthille
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser +2 more
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Modernity and Progress: The Transnational Politics of Suffrage in British Columbia (1910-1916)
Atlantis, 2020 Canadian historians have underplayed the extent to which theproject of suffrage and first wave feminism was transnational in scope. The suffrage movement in British Columbia provides a good example of the global interconnections of the movement.
Lara Campbell
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Gardner, Byron Richard, 1894-1966 (SC 1255) [PDF]
, 2014 Finding aid and scan (Click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1255. Paper entitled “Woman” by Byron Gardner, in which he upholds what he considers to be women’s divinely ordained role in society and opposes women’s ...
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
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Australian 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
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The History of Feminism in the Arab World
مجلة الدراسات الاجتماعية, 2023 This paper investigates the history of Arab feminism. It traces how those women came from different parts of Arab world and how they developed their awareness towards women's issues, though they do not call themselves as 'feminists' at the beginning. The
Ahmed Saeed Ahmed Mocbil
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Women as Producers of Global Historical Knowledge
Österreichische Zeitschrift für GeschichtswissenschaftenIn 1907 the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire became the first state in the world to elect women to its national parliament. This paper explores an overlooked part of the process that led to Finnish women attaining full suffrage, which is ...
Juho Korhonen
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