Girls in Legislative Research: Advancing Gender Equality
By Eleanor Neff Powell, College of Wisconsin–Madison, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Rice College and Gisela Sin, College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The illustration of girls in legislative politics is remarkably small, and the absence of girls has far-reaching penalties. In fall 2019, we surveyed 361 girls we recognized as finding out legislative coverage in political science to grasp why girls’s illustration in legislative research is so low and what we are able to do about it. We discovered that many ladies research legislatures, however they don’t all the time determine as legislative research students, typically don’t be a part of the Legislative Research Part, and have a tendency to prioritize different journals over Legislative Research Quarterly, the part’s official journal. On this article, we talk about a number of options to the issue of girls’s underrepresentation in legislative research, together with the brand new Girls in Legislative Research initiative.