Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2019
Abstract
The gender and age composition of a parliament impacts who is descriptively represented and marginalized and what types of policy ideas and solutions are brought forward or excluded. While important for both descriptive and substantive representation, scholarship on the intersection of gender and age in parliaments has thus far been limited. To broaden our understanding, we conducted a large-scale cross-sectional analysis of the gender and ages of over 20,000 representatives from 78 national assemblies. We identified four types of gender-age patterns depending on whether women enter legislatures younger than men (“early birds”) or have served in parliament for a shorter period of time than men (“short tenures”). Most surprisingly, we found few countries exhibit the predicted “double squeeze” pattern whereby women enter parliament older than men and have shorter tenures. Lastly, since most women enter parliament after child-bearing age, we conclude that the motherhood penalty still exists.
Keywords
Age, gender, legislatures, parliament, representation, women
Discipline
Gender and Sexuality | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Politics, Groups and Identities
First Page
1
Last Page
18
ISSN
2156-5503
Identifier
10.1080/21565503.2019.1629319
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
Citation
JOSHI, Devin K., & OCH, Malliga.(2019). Early birds, short tenures, and the double squeeze: How gender and age intersect with parliamentary representation. Politics, Groups and Identities, , 1-18.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3084
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2019.1629319