The Silent Sex : Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions /

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Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Karpowitz, Christopher F. (Autor), Mendelberg, Tali (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Temas:
Corporate meetings.
Social groups.
Social interaction.
Social participation.
Social psychology.
Women.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics.
American politics.
American women.
advanced economies.
all-female groups.
authoritative representation.
authority.
children.
civic activists.
civic organizations.
class privileges.
compassion issues.
confidence.
confident participants.
consensus process.
cooperation.
decision making.
decision-making groups.
deliberation.
deliberative democracy.
democracy.
descriptive representation.
disadvantaged groups.
education.
efficacy.
ethnicity.
female citizens.
gender composition.
gender differences.
gender gap.
gender.
government intervention.
group behaviour.
group interaction.
group-level factors.
income redistribution.
inequality.
influence.
international speakers.
justice.
lower confidence.
majority rule.
majority-rule meetings.
meetings.
men.
minorities.
minority status.
mixed-gender combinations.
modern America.
political participation.
politics.
poor populations.
poverty.
public affairs.
race.
representation.
school boards.
second-class citizens.
silent sex.
social group.
solidarity.
speech.
substantive representation.
symbolic representation.
taxes.
women.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Problem
  • Chapter 2. The Sources of the Gender Gap in Political Participation
  • Chapter 3. Why Women Don't Speak
  • Chapter 4. The Deliberative Justice Experiment
  • Chapter 5. Speech as a Form of Participation: Floor Time and Perceived Influence
  • Chapter 6. What Makes Women the "Silent Sex" When Their Status Is Low?
  • Chapter 7. Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women's Distinctive Voice?
  • Chapter 8. Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction
  • Chapter 9. When Women Speak, Groups Listen-Sometimes: How and When Women's Voice Shapes the Group's Generosity
  • Chapter 10. Gender Inequality in School Boards
  • Conclusion
  • Appendixes
  • Index

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