Elect Women for a Change: The Path to Gender Parity in Politics
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Mona Lena Krook (Rutgers University)
- Host
- Social Policy and Intervention (Department)
- Series
- Dr Rossella Ciccia
- Location
- VBR Department of Social Policy and Intervention, VBR Department of Social Policy and Intervention 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 2ER United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
Women have made significant inroads into political life over the last 30 years. Yet many nations still lag behind. In the face of these developments, a new global movement is taking shape. Building on decades of work to make politics more inclusive, these actors make a simple but striking demand: the full and equal sharing of political power between women and men. In other words: nothing less than gender parity. Tired of tokenism, they reject timid efforts to elect more women, embracing instead more ambitious and pathbreaking methods of achieving equal representation. In her new book, Elect Women for a Change: The Path to Gender Parity in Politics, Mona Lena Krook makes the case for why gender parity in politics matters and how it can be achieved. Drawing on research from around the world, she moves beyond counting women to focus on power, voice, and diversity, identifying the structural barriers that hold women back and the practical strategies that can move democracies closer to parity.
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