Recent publications

'Emotional labour and occupational wellbeing in political office', James Weinberg finds level of emotional labour differs between between men and women in UK elected office, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, October 2020 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1369148120959044

A Primer on Gender Sensitive Parliamentary Responses to COVID 19 by Sarah Childs and Sonia Palmieri https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/06/a-primer-for-parliamentary-action-gender-sensitive-responses-to-covid-19

Special issue on Parliaments as gendered workplaces, edited by Josefina Erikson and Tània Verge

Erikson, J., & Verge, T. (2020). Gender, Power and Privilege in the Parliamentary Workplace.
Parliamentary Affairs.
https://academic.oup.com/pa/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pa/gsaa048/5917167?guestAccessKey=f2dad9eb-e93f-45f9-8e7f-a068bd227d81

Erikson, J., & Josefsson, C. (2020). The Parliament as a Gendered Workplace: How to Research Legislators’(UN) Equal Opportunities to Represent.
Parliamentary Affairs.

Palmieri, S & Baker, K. (2020) Localising Global Norms: The Case of Family-Friendly Parliaments.
Parliamentary Affairs.

Verge, T. (2020) Too Few, Too Little: Parliaments’ Response to Sexism and Sexual Harassment.
Parliamentary Affairs.

Miller, C. (2020) Parliamentary Recruitment in the UK House of Commons: De-Gendering Career Structures, Gendering the Applicant.
Parliamentary Affairs.

Smrek, M. (2020) When Is Access to Political Capital Gendered? Lessons from the Czech Parliament.
Parliamentary Affairs.

A Dialogue edited by Marian Sawer and Sonia Palmieri, 'New Critical Actors: Gender-Focused Parliamentary Bodies' has just been published by Politics, Groups, and Identities https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=rpgi20

The articles are:

- Marian Sawer, 'Gender mainstreaming and the substantive representation of women: where do parliamentary bodies fit?
- Sonia Palmieri, 'Finding a space for women's intersectionality? A review of Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians'
- Melinda Adams & Kristin Wylie, 'Transnational organizing, the boosting effect an women's legislative caucuses in Africa'
- Lenita Freidenvall & Josefina Erikson, 'The speaker's gender equality group in the Swedish parliament – a toothless tiger?'

Anna Mitchell Mahoney and Christoper J Clark have published an article 'When and Where Do Women's Legislative Caucuses Emerge?' in Politics & Gender 15(4), December 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X18000806
- It is about the factors favouring the emergence of women's caucuses in US State legislatures, finding that Democrat control of the legislature is the most important.  However, it argues that US women's caucuses are uniquely bipartisan, while members of black, latino and LGBTI caucuses are almost always Democrat.

Temple University Press has published Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: The Creation of Women’s Caucuses, by Anna Mitchell Mahoney which investigates the opportunities, resources, and frames that women utilize to create legislative caucuses.

Mirya R Holman and Anna Mitchell Mahoney have published (March 2019) 'The Choice is Yours: Caucus Typologies and Collaboration in U.S. State Legislatures' in the UK journal Representation: https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2019.1581079.
- They find that 6 State legislatures have policy agenda-setting women's caucuses, 6 have non-policy 'social caucuses', 11 have ad hoc policy caucuses and 27 States have none. All the women's caucuses in the study are cross-party and the authors find that even non-policy oriented caucuses can perform a valuable role as 'subaltern public space'.

There is a new article by Melinda J. Adams, John A. Scherpereel and Kristin N. Wylie published in January 2019 in International Feminist Journal of Politics.  Its title is 'The adoption of women’s legislative caucuses worldwide' DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2018.1543550.
- It looks at the role of international diffusion in the establishment of women's parliamentary caucuses, particularly through regional peer effects and women's international NGOs. 

Sarah Child and Peter Allen's article, 'The Grit in the Oyster? Women's Parliamentary Organisations and the Substantive Representation of Women' has been published in Political Studies in 2018: DOI: 10.1177/0032321718793080

Marian Sawer has uploaded on ResearchGate her 2017 ECPG conference paper: 'Gender Mainstreaming and the Substantive Representation of Women: Where Do Parliamentary Bodies Fit?'

Mette Marie Staehr Harder's article 'Assessing the Impact of Parliamentary Design: The Case of the Danish Committee on Gender Equality' has been published in Scandinavian Political Studies doi: 10.1111/1467-9477.12102

Marian Sawer's article 'Beyond Numbers: The Role of Specialised Parliamentary Bodies in Promoting Gender Equality' appeared in the autumn/winter 2015 Australasian Parliamentary Review 30(1): 105–122 .

The GenParlNet papers given at Uppsala in 2015 formed the basis of a special issue of Parliamentary Affairs entitled 'Representing Gender Equality in Parliament: Specialised Parliamentary Bodies'. The following articles were published in Advanced Access in March-April 2016:

• Introduction , Marian Sawer and Joan Grace
• Specialised Parliamentary Bodies: Their Role and Relevance to Women’s Movement Repertoire, Marian Sawer and Alicia Turner
• Specialised Parliamentary Bodies and the Quality of Women’s Substantive Representation:  A Comparative Analysis of Belgium, United Kingdom and New Zealand, Karen Celis, Sarah Childs, Jennifer Curtin
• Presence and Purpose in the Canadian House of Commons: The Standing Committee on the Status of Women, Joan Grace
• Gender-focused institutions in international parliamentary bodies: The case of the women’s caucus of the Parliamentary Assembly of The Portuguese-speaking Countries   Monica Costa
• The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in the European Parliament—Taking Advantage of Institutional Power Play , Petra Ahrens
• The Women’s Delegation in France: Making Women’s Voices Heard? , Manda Green
• Towards a Dual Approach: Comparing the Effects of Parliamentary Committees on Gender Equality in Denmark and Finland, Anne Maria Holli  and Mette Marie Harder
• A New Way of Doing Politics? Cross-Party Women’s Caucuses as Critical Actors in Uganda and Uruguay , Niki Johnson and Cecilia Josefsson

Select publications by GenParlNet members

Other select publications on women, gender and legislative institutions

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