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Feminism and Politics: A Comparative Perspective is a non-fiction book written by Joyce Gelb.It was published in 1989 by the University of California Press.It compares the feminist movement in Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom and is based on over 200 interviews Gelb conducted with feminist activists, academics, and politicians.
This addresses the political discrimination of women at various levels: parties are forced to give women the opportunity to run, the women candidates are not disadvantaged by a male incumbent or general biases for male over female leadership, and the pool of women candidates is increased because of the guaranteed opportunity for female ...
Women who were radicalized during the 1960s by political debate and sexual liberation; but the failure of radicalism to produce substantive change for women galvanized them to form consciousness-raising groups and set about analysing, from different perspectives, dominant cinema's construction of women. [241]
The political recruitment model is often used to describe how women face sexism at different stages of the electoral process. The model first includes women that are 'eligible' to become prospective candidates, then those who actually consider becoming a candidate, followed by candidates themselves, and then, finally, those who successfully win an election and become a legislator or other ...
One of the enduring truths of American politics is that women tend to be more liberal than men. A majority of women have supported the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1996.
For many years and in most regions of the globe, politics had not allowed women to play a significant role in government. Even in the early 1900s, politics were viewed almost exclusively as the domain of men. [19] However, women's movements and culture-changing events such as World War II gradually increased women's rights and roles in politics ...
But despite relatively greater freedom of movement for Spartan women, their role in politics was the same as Athenian women. [17] Plato acknowledged that extending civil and political rights to women would substantively alter the nature of the household and the state. [21]
Hence women who had worked during the war found themselves struggling to find jobs and those approaching working age were not offered the opportunity. Women workers in the Royal Gun Factory (Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, 1918.) Many women during World War I sought employment opportunities at factories.