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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sawer, Marian (-)
Other Authors: Maley, Maria
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Series:Gender and Politics,
Subjects:
Political planning.
Identity politics.
Sex.
Public Policy.
Politics and Gender.
Gender Studies.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811292606719
Table of Contents:
  • 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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