Women face multiple barriers during political recruitment and representational processes. Concomitantly, a burgeoning scholarship has revealed the existence of various obstacles to elected office faced by disabled people. While studies have examined intersections between gender, race class, we know little about how intersection disability gender shapes people’s experiences. This article provide...

Purpose Recently, the relationship between gender representation and organizational performance has been focus of various studies. However, some research gaps still exist. First, in healthcare sector, this poorly explored. Moreover, public management studies, researchers focusing on tend to exclusively differences at top and/or middle level. This aims exploring women's hospitals all levels. Des...

Abstract This article explores the gender dimension of ideology and representation by analysing political parties that ran in 2019 Polish parliamentary elections, using a novel analytical framework based on claims gender-related policy pledges. demonstrates left liberal largely determines feminist pro-LGBTQ+ promissory representation. However, ideologies right-wing vary their traditional types ...

portraying women in the media is one of the main social and cultural issues especially on television. television commercials as a genre have ideas about goods and services, but it constructs a secondary discourse about society, culture and gender roles along the way. the main goal of this paper is to examine women’s readings of gender roles representation in iranian television commercials from ...

This paper examines the gender diversity in corporate boardrooms in Asia and the Pacific and how the diversity affects corporate performance. We find that boardroom gender diversity is low in Asia with 7.5% female representation on average in 2012, but showing a 1.8% improvement in 2013. The appointment of female directors and a gender-diverse boardroom are on average positively associated with...

Gender nonconformity refers to the extent to which a person's gender identity, gender role and/or gender expression differs from the cultural norms prescribed for people of a particular sex, within a certain society and era. Most data on gender nonconformity focus on the prevalence of gender dysphoria (which also includes a distress factor) or on the number of legal sex changes. However, not ev...

This study analyzes how 12 recent (2000-2011) Newbery Medal-winning books represent gender. The study counts how many of the books’ characters represent progressive or traditional gender roles, how many male and female characters represent each character category (protagonist, antagonist, major, and minor), how many strong female characters are accepted or rejected by their peers, how many char...