Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women, parties, and political power
  • Opportunity structures: the key to womens access
  • Change from the inside out: women in party leadership
  • Rule changes to increase womens parliamentary presence: the diffusion of candidate gender quotas
  • Britain: women, parties, and the House of Commons
  • Germany: women, parties, and the Bundestag
  • Finland: women, parties, and the Eduskunta
  • Increasing access to parliaments: a model for change
  • Conclusions: implications for party theory and underrepresented groups
  • Afterword: women and parties navigate in a new era, 19982004
  • Appendix A List of sources for party variables used in the study
  • Appendix B List of sources for survey data.