Denmark was among the first countries to achieve female enfranchisement to the national parliament (1915) and it is a society with a long tradition for gender equality policies and women’s rights. 100 years later, the Danish case gives grounds for reflections on gender balance, on segregation and positions occupied by women in national parliaments. Drawing on insights from literature on gender and politics and on parliamentary committees, the article asks what the gendered distribution of seats and chairs is in the Danish parliament, the Folketing, and what can explain these gendered patterns. To answer these questions, this article investigates the horizontal and vertical gendered segregation of standing parliamentary committees of the Dan...
The Swedish Riksdag is often regarded as an ideal type for Scandinavian or Nordic parliamentarism. T...
The representation of women in numbers in national legislatures is an issue of great importance to F...
Women’s descriptive underrepresentation in parliaments is traditionally presented as the result of a...
In this article, we describe and discuss the vertical and horizontal gender segregation in the elite...
In this article, we describe and discuss the vertical and horizontal gender segregation in the elite...
Most job functions, tasks and professions are gendered as either ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’. On the b...
Drawing on insights from state feminism and legislative studies on parliamentarycommittees, this art...
This article contributes to the literature on parliamentary design in general and the pioneer litera...
In the late 20th century, the proportions of women and men elected into European national parliament...
The purpose of this study is to map out and to analyze the spatial variation of female representatio...
Increasing globalization and growing importance of the European Union has facilitated an important d...
Introduction By obtaining the right to parliamentary enfranchisement in 1915, women in Denmark stren...
The paper addresses the dilemmas, contradictions and paradoxes in the Danish approach to gender quot...
This article analyses the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament and aims...
Recent research has pointed to the need for addressing gender equality in parliaments in a broader p...
The Swedish Riksdag is often regarded as an ideal type for Scandinavian or Nordic parliamentarism. T...
The representation of women in numbers in national legislatures is an issue of great importance to F...
Women’s descriptive underrepresentation in parliaments is traditionally presented as the result of a...
In this article, we describe and discuss the vertical and horizontal gender segregation in the elite...
In this article, we describe and discuss the vertical and horizontal gender segregation in the elite...
Most job functions, tasks and professions are gendered as either ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’. On the b...
Drawing on insights from state feminism and legislative studies on parliamentarycommittees, this art...
This article contributes to the literature on parliamentary design in general and the pioneer litera...
In the late 20th century, the proportions of women and men elected into European national parliament...
The purpose of this study is to map out and to analyze the spatial variation of female representatio...
Increasing globalization and growing importance of the European Union has facilitated an important d...
Introduction By obtaining the right to parliamentary enfranchisement in 1915, women in Denmark stren...
The paper addresses the dilemmas, contradictions and paradoxes in the Danish approach to gender quot...
This article analyses the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament and aims...
Recent research has pointed to the need for addressing gender equality in parliaments in a broader p...
The Swedish Riksdag is often regarded as an ideal type for Scandinavian or Nordic parliamentarism. T...
The representation of women in numbers in national legislatures is an issue of great importance to F...
Women’s descriptive underrepresentation in parliaments is traditionally presented as the result of a...