2019
DOI: 10.1177/1065912919861443
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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Abstract: The literature on nomination procedures and intra-party politics shows that engagement in personalized parliamentary activities helps legislators get re-elected and promoted in the party list. However, as a considerable body of scholarly work suggests, women in leadership positions who are perceived to disconfirm the well-known gender stereotypes by being “too assertive” and “agentic” in the workplace may suffer from what social psychologists call the “backlash effect” (i.e., facing economic and social sanctio… Show more

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“…Male MPs, on the other hand, mostly focus on masculine issues such as commerce, defense, and government and public administration. These preliminary findings largely confirm the previous literature which argues that female legislators are more likely to focus on soft/feminine issues during their tenure in the parliament (Bäck, Debus, and Müller 2014; Yildirim 2020; Yildrım, Kocapınar, and Ecevit 2019a).…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Male MPs, on the other hand, mostly focus on masculine issues such as commerce, defense, and government and public administration. These preliminary findings largely confirm the previous literature which argues that female legislators are more likely to focus on soft/feminine issues during their tenure in the parliament (Bäck, Debus, and Müller 2014; Yildirim 2020; Yildrım, Kocapınar, and Ecevit 2019a).…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 89%
“…Other empirical work outside of African parliaments also suggests that men legislators tend to be rewarded for agentic behavior, while women legislators tend to be punished. Analyzing thousands of parliamentary speeches in Turkey, Yildirim, Kocapnar, and Ecevit (2021) find that whereas men MPs who were active on the legislative floor were significantly more likely to get renominated and promoted in the party rank, women who were active in legislative speech making were less likely to be renominated and promoted. Similarly, research on ministerial selection in Sweden shows that women MPs who deviated from the party line during parliamentary speeches were less likely to be appointed to cabinet posts, whereas this pattern was not found among men (Baumann, Bäck, and Davidsson 2019).…”
Section: Gendered Expectations Of Legislative Behaviormentioning
confidence: 97%
“…For example, according to role congruity theory, any conflict between the gender norms expected of women (e.g., to be communal) and the social norms expected of a gender‐typed job (e.g., an electrical powerline worker), can create challenges for women in these occupations. Women who display agentic traits that are stereotypical of their job position (rather than being stereotypical of women) are more likely to be criticized compared to men who display similar traits in the same situations (Brescoll, 2016; Gupta et al, 2018; Yildirim et al, 2019).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%