Toxic Parliaments : And What Can Be Done About Them

Toxic Parliaments And What Can Be Done About Them

This open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Long-standing conventions included extreme power imbalances between p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sawer, Marian (-)
Otros Autores: Maley, Maria
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland 2024.
Edición:1st ed. 2024.
Colección:Gender and Politics,
Materias:
Political planning.
Identity politics.
Sex.
Public Policy.
Politics and Gender.
Gender Studies.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811292606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Women arrive in the parliamentary workplace
  • 3. Institutional norms and the cost of doing politics
  • 4. The arrival of #MeToo breaks the silence
  • 5. Trying to turn parliament into a model workplace: UK, Canada, New Zealand
  • 6. Australia catches up and what hope for the future?

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