Exploring Sustainability in Parliamentary Gender Equality Work. Insights from the Swedish Riksdag

Erikson, Josefina; Freidenvall, Lenita

doi:10.1080/08038740.2023.2174184

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“…In addition, a "legislative gender-equality norm" has emerged over time, demonstrated by increased support for gender equality among MPs, regardless of sex or party affiliation (Erikson and Freidenvall 2020, 16). MPs confirm that a strong norm of gender balance in nominations and appointments to leadership positions in the Riksdag has developed since the 1990s (Erikson and Josefsson 2021). It is noteworthy that although there are no formal gender quotas in place, the proportion of women in leadership positions in the Riksdag has closely followed the proportion of women MPs during a majority of terms since 1994 (see Figure 1).…”

Section: Gender Within the Context Of Swedish Politicsmentioning

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Feminine Leadership Ideals and Masculine Practices: Exploring Gendered Leadership Conditions in the Swedish Parliament

Erikson

Josefsson

2023

Pol & Gen

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Women’s access to political leadership positions has increased greatly in recent decades, which calls for research concerning the conditions of women’s political leadership in more gender-balanced contexts. This article responds to this need by exploring the leadership ideals, evaluations, and treatment of men and women leaders in the numerically gender-equal Swedish parliament (the Riksdag). Drawing on interviews with almost all the current top political leaders in the Swedish parliament, along with an original survey of Swedish members of parliament, we reveal a mainly feminine-coded parliamentary leadership ideal that should be more appropriate for women leaders. Masculine practices remain, however, and women leaders continue to be disadvantaged. To explain this anomaly between ideals and practices, we argue that a feminist institutionalist perspective, which emphasizes how gender shapes a given context in multiple ways, contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the conditions for women’s political leadership than that provided by the widely employed role congruity theory.

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Feminine Leadership Ideals and Masculine Practices: Exploring Gendered Leadership Conditions in the Swedish Parliament

Erikson

Josefsson

2023

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“…First, we contend that the sustainable transformation of a parliament to become gender-sensitive takes time and relies on committed parliamentary actors (Erikson & Freidenvall, 2024). Parliamentary groups are key actors and essential for core functions inside many parliaments inter-alia: legislation, deliberation, scrutiny, legitimation, and public engagement.…”

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From Parliament to Party: The Gender‐Sensitive Parliamentary Group

Ahrens,

Meier

2024

PaG

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Gender-sensitive parliaments are an emergent international norm. Research primarily focused on parliaments as gendered workplaces functioning with formal and informal rules and routines that either constrain or promote gender equality. We shift the focus to parliamentary groups and parties in public office as key actors in achieving a gender-sensitive parliament. We argue that they play a crucial role in many parliamentary systems and can actively contribute to gender-sensitive transformations. Building on the gender-sensitive parliament literature, we first explore the potential of parliamentary groups to improve parliamentary functioning across four aspects: representation, policy-making, engagement with societal interests, and groups as gender-sensitive workplaces. Secondly, we delve into the broader parliamentary and party contexts, recognizing how factors such as the diversity of parliamentary systems, organizational structures, parties in central office, and political dynamics shape parliamentary groups’ room for manoeuvre. We conclude by calling for further empirical, but especially conceptual, research to develop intersectionality-sensitive parliaments which we suggest are crucial for dismantling existing power hierarchies based on social markers.

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Critical Culture: The Role of Institutional Norms in Gender Sensitising Parliaments

Palmieri,

Freidenvall

2024

Gender and Politics

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Exploring Sustainability in Parliamentary Gender Equality Work. Insights from the Swedish Riksdag

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Feminine Leadership Ideals and Masculine Practices: Exploring Gendered Leadership Conditions in the Swedish Parliament

Feminine Leadership Ideals and Masculine Practices: Exploring Gendered Leadership Conditions in the Swedish Parliament

From Parliament to Party: The Gender‐Sensitive Parliamentary Group

Critical Culture: The Role of Institutional Norms in Gender Sensitising Parliaments

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