Gendered Patterns of Committee Assignments—To What Extent Are Women in Parliamentary Party Groups Game Changers?

• Kroeber, Corinna ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Greifswald

     University of Greifswald

     Vorpommern-Greifswald, Alemania

     
• Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 77, Nº 3, 2024, págs. 623-643
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsad011
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• Resumen

  • Committee assignments continue to be gendered with men having higher chances than women to be appointed to the most visible, resourceful and influential committees. I contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon by investigating to what extent women in parliamentary party groups push for gender parity in committee assignments. The empirical analyses build on original data from the 16 German states between 1990 and 2021. I find no indication that women as leaders of parliamentary party groups narrow sex gaps in appointment to the most prestigious committees, but higher shares of women representatives enhance women’s access to these posts.

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