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Stalled

The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments

Edited by Linda Trimble, Jane Arscott and Manon Tremblay

Published by: UBC Press

360 pages, 152.00 x 229.00 mm, 90 tables

ISBN: 9780774825214
Published: January 2014

£34.00

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Following significant increases in women’s electoral representation in the 1980s and '90s, progress has stalled. Despite some high-profile successes at the provincial level, there are now only a few more women in Canada’s parliament and legislatures than a decade ago. What has happened to the representational gains for women and why does gender parity remain so elusive?

To answer these questions, Stalled provides a provides a detailed roadmap of women’s political representation as candidates, office-holders, cabinet ministers, party leaders, and as representatives of the Crown at all levels of government across Canada. Prospects for gender parity in political office are assessed in each jurisdiction and institution. Explanations are re-examined and analyzed using data from across the country.

The representation of women in elected and appointed offices is an important indicator of both gender equality and the overall health of democratic governance. By this measure Canada continues to fall short.

Foreword – Women, Power, Politics: Surveying the Canadian Landscape / Sylvia Bashevkin

Introduction: The Road to Gender Parity / Manon Tremblay, Jane Arscott, and Linda Trimble

1 Truly More Accessible to Women than the Legislature? Women in Municipal Politics / Manon Tremblay and Anne Mévellec

2 The Alberta Advantage? Women in Alberta Politics / Brenda O’Neill

3 When Numerical Gains Are Not Enough: Women in British Columbia Politics / Jocelyne Praud

4 Complacency and Gender Silence: Women in Manitoba Politics / Shannon Sampert

5 A Province at the Back of the Pack: Women in New Brunswick Politics / Joanna Everitt

6 A Laggard No More? Women in Newfoundland and Labrador Politics / Amanda Bittner and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant

7 Electoral Breakthrough: Women in Nova Scotia Politics / Louise Carbert and Naomi Black

8 Breaking the Holding Pattern? Women in Ontario Politics / Tracey Raney

9 Getting Women’s Names on the Ballot: Women in Prince Edward Island Politics / John Crossley

10 Hitting a Glass Ceiling? Women in Quebec Politics / Manon Tremblay

11 A Prairie Plateau: Women in Saskatchewan Politics / Loleen Berdahl

12 In the Presence of Northern Aboriginal Women? Women in Territorial Politics / Graham White

13 Slow to Change: Women in the House of Commons / Lisa Young

14 “Way Past That Era Now?” Women in the Canadian Senate / Stephanie Mullen, with the collaboration of Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble

Conclusion: A Few More Women / Linda Trimble, Manon Tremblay, and Jane Arscott

Index

Linda Trimble is a professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta. She is the co-editor of two collections on women and political representation in Canada as well as a volume on the changing nature of Canadian politics in the twenty-first century.

Jane Arscott is an Assistant Professor at Athabasca University. With Linda Trimble she co-edited In the Presence of Women: Representation in Canadian Governments and has published articles and chapters on feminist political theory, and the history of political thought. She is currently working on a book about the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.

Manon Tremblay is a professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of 100 Questions about Women and Politics and, with Anne Mévellec, of Genre et professionnalisation de la politique municipale. She co-edited Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments, with Linda Trimble and Jane Arscott, and The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship, with David Paternotte and Carol Johnson.

Contributors: Curtis Atkins, Frédéric Boily, Steven D. Brown, Alexa DeGagne, Joanna Everitt, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Brooke Jeffrey, Barry Kay, Mireille Lalancette, Catherine J. Nash, Andrea M.L. Perrella, Dennis Pilon, Tracey Raney, Ève Robidoux-Descary, Graeme Truelove, Angelia Wagner

This book is a must-read for people interested in Canadian history, gender, and electoral politics in Canada. I cannot say enough about Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Govenrments, which includes chapters written by well-known scholars, features a strong cross-section of expertise in Canadian political science, covers virtually every province and territory, and contains the different constituent groups within a Canadian context ... Well written and appropriate for lay and academic audiences, Stalled is the perfect addition to classes in gender and politics, to upperdivision courses in comparative politics focused on the status of 'women and politics, and to Canadian history courses. ~Janni Aragon, BC Studies, Spring 2015

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