Asian women’s paths to office: a qualitative comparative analysis approach

Inguanzo, Isabel

doi:10.1080/13569775.2020.1712005

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“…Jahan 1987;Richter 1990;Fleschenberg 2008;Derichs & Thompson 2013). Today, however, pathways to parliament in Asia include not only the elite route (political insiders; surrogates for male relatives) but also the grassroots (experience in activism; solving social and political community issues) and middle pathways (working professionals; women choosing politics as a vocation) (Choi 2019; see also Inguanzo 2020;Och & Joshi 2021). Moreover, in some Asian countries, feminist activists have on occasion been able to get a foothold in politics (see Edwards & Roces 2010).…”

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Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments

Joshi¹,

Echle²

2022

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Analyzing an impressive array of countries, 'Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments' fills a considerable gap in the women in politics literature. With findings based on original interviews with leading political experts including parliamentarians, this collection goes beyond analyzing women's numerical presence in legislative bodies to understanding how myriad factors shape women's substantive representation. This book will be a vital resource for scholars and policymakers alike and anyone interested in advancing women's policy representation in Asia and beyond."Dr Farida Jalalzai, Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech "This edited volume offers a rich collection of ten Asian case studies on women's substantive representation, written by scholars from the region, cognizant of the wide-ranging diversity that can be found in the transregional perspective. As such, the book is an important contribution to the global study of gender and politics, more than often dominated by scholars working on Global North case studies and experiences. The authors engage with a variety of factors and thus contribute significantly to our understandings as well as theorizing of women's political participation not only in electoral politics but zooming into wider, underlying questions of advancing gender equality and suggesting relevant, context-sensitive critical interventions." -Dr Andrea Fleschenberg, Associate Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Asian and African Studies "Joshi and Echle have compiled a must-read book about women's substantive representation in an understudied world region. The chapters examine how women and men parliamentarians act on women's interests in East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. They find that parliamentarians' ideas about men's and women's roles are formed through lived experiences and intersectional identities, but that institutions shape whether and how ideas become translated into policy. Their conclusions offer a potent reminder that women's presence does not always mean women's power." -Dr Jennifer M. Piscopo, Associate Professor of Politics, Occidental College "This book demonstrates how Asian parliamentarians have tackled policymaking for gender equality and to what extent they have achieved their agendas. It interests me specifically because I face the same problems in my everyday practice in Japan's Upper House. As a woman representative, I have been trying very hard to advance women's representation and gender equality. Gender equality in politics is no doubt a key to achieving gender equality in society. However, women MPs account for only approximately 14% of the Japanese Parliament, thereby making it difficult for me, as well as my female colleagues, to act for women and social minorities. The book offers abundant knowledge and information about gender equality and parliamentary politics. It encourages me to represent women descriptively as well as substantively. I recommend this book to many more parliamentarians inside and outside As...

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Section: The Asian Contextmentioning

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Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments

Joshi¹,

Echle²

2022

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“…Many women leaders are part of the social, economic, and political elite. Among all the women who became presidents or prime ministers between 1960 and 2019, 17 (27%) were wives, daughters, or sisters of male political leaders who held high office (Paxton, Hughes, and Barnes 2021, 61–63), even though the importance of family ties to women’s elections has decreased in Asia (Inguanzo 2020). Dynastic politicians, who are from “any family that has supplied two or more members to the national-level political office” (Smith 2018, 4), exist in various types of modern democracies.…”

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A Trailblazer or a Barrier? Dynastic Politics and Symbolic Representation of the First Female President of South Korea, Park Geun-hye

Lee

2022

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What is the impact on symbolic representation of female leaders who are seen as failures? Do women from political dynasties elicit symbolic representation? I answer these questions by analyzing how Park Geun-hye’s election as the first woman president of South Korea and her subsequent impeachment shaped voters’ perceptions of women’s potential and contribution as political leaders. Utilizing an original survey and focus groups, I argue that South Korean voters overall did not recognize Park’s election as the country’s first female president as a symbol of women’s political empowerment because of her dynastic background and her failure to promote women-friendly policies. Although she received credit for being the historic first, women across the political spectrum were concerned that the epic failure of the first female president would reinforce voters’ reluctance to vote for women. This study emphasizes the importance of adopting an intersectional approach in studying symbolic representation.

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“…Such studies highlight in what ways women's civic activism and participation in formal politics can also be strategically used by such regimes, for example, as legitimation strategies or to gain voter support, or to allow the certain provision of women's rights as an illusion of democratic practice while covering up other violations or repression, for example, human rights (Lorch and Bunk, 2016;Valdini, 2019;Bjarnegård and Zetterberg, 2022). Yet, women's experiences of parliament as a gendered institution and particularly how informal obstacles influence their political power remains understudied in hybrid regime contexts (Inguanzo, 2020;Højlund Madsen, 2021).…”

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“…Although women increasingly enter and influence political institutions, such as parliaments, around the world, various formal barriers-for example, socio-economic factors or political recruitment-continue to impact women's experiences of participation in parliaments and other political institutions (Paxton and Hughes, 2015;Inguanzo, 2020). Even once women have entered political decision-making arenas, for example as political leaders or in cabinet positions, gendered barriers continue to persist (Heath et al, 2005).…”

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Navigating underrepresentation and gendered barriers to women's political power: Narratives and experiences of women parliamentarians in Turkey

Ehrhart

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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As women increasingly participate in political decision-making around the world, the research emphasizes the need to further understand how informal barriers shape women's political participation. At the same time, the persistent stability of hybrid political regimes calls for additional inquiry into the impact of hybrid regimes on gender politics and its actors. Based on the case of Turkey, a hybrid regime, this study explores how women MPs navigate gendered, informal obstacles in parliament and to what extent their navigation strategies reflect the broader implications posed by the hybrid regime context. This exploratory study draws on qualitative, in-depth semi-structured interviews with eight women MPs in the Turkish parliament from government and opposition parties. The findings illustrate that navigating the informal barriers women MPs experience in the Turkish parliament happens both individually and in collective ways. Individually, women MPs choose to navigate the informal barriers of gender norms by either assimilating or contrasting the masculine way of doing politics. Collective navigation strategies of women MPs in the Turkish parliament illustrate their approaches to representing women's interests, seeking women's solidarity across the parliament, and linkages with civil society to empower women, which also reflect the different positionings of government and opposition within the Turkish hybrid regime dynamics. The findings reveal the need to further research the complex, dynamic interplay of how informal practices and hybrid regime tactics target gender politics and its actors, while also giving more attention to women's agency in tackling and countering obstacles to their political power within and beyond political institutions.

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Asian women’s paths to office: a qualitative comparative analysis approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 50 publications

Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments

Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments

A Trailblazer or a Barrier? Dynastic Politics and Symbolic Representation of the First Female President of South Korea, Park Geun-hye

Navigating underrepresentation and gendered barriers to women's political power: Narratives and experiences of women parliamentarians in Turkey

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