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  title info:
    title: Making gender salient
    sub title: from gender quota laws to policy
  name:
    name part: Weeks, Ana Catalano
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Do gender quota laws, policies that mandate women's inclusion on parties' candidate slates, affect policy outcomes? Making Gender Salient tackles this crucial by offering a new theory to understand when and how gender quota laws impact policy. Drawing on cross-national data from high-income democracies and a mixed-methods research design, the book argues that quotas lead to policy change for issues characterized by a gender gap in preferences, especially if these issues deviate from the usual left/right party-policy divide. The book focuses on one such issue, work-family policies, and finds that quotas shift work-family policies in the direction of gender equality. Substantive chapters show that quotas make gender more salient by giving women louder voices within parties, providing access to powerful ministerial roles, and encouraging male party leaders to compete on previously marginalized issues. The book concludes that quotas are one important way of facilitating congruence between women's policy preferences and actual policy outcomes.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. When do quotas matter? A theory of the substantive representation of cross-cutting interests -- 3. What do women want? Gender gaps in preferences -- 4. The first stage of policy change: the effects of quotas on party priorities -- 5. The effects of gender quota laws on work-family policies -- 6. How gender quota laws change work-family policies -- 7. Conclusion.
  note: Ana Catalano Weeks.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-242) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ew-----
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Political activity
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: Europe, Western
  subject:
    topic: Women political candidates
    topic: Government policy
  subject:
    topic: Women political candidates
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: Europe, Western
  subject:
    topic: Representative government and representation
  subject:
    topic: Representative government and representation
    geographic: Europe, Western
  classification: HQ1236 .W4196 2022
  classification: 324.082
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge studies in gender and politics
  identifier: 9781009167833
  identifier: 1009167839
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220417
    record change date: 20221207162409.8
    record identifier: in00004600478