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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Female politicians"”.
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Dismantling the Patriarchy One "Pinkie Promise" At a Time: Women, Vicarious Learning and Female Politicians As Role Models
… office, but also to lend support to and vote for female candidates? This dissertation looked to examine how the recent increase in well-known female candidates may impact American women. Inspired by the work of scholars like Hayes and Lawless (2016), who studied whether gender bias continues to …
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An exploration of negative and aggressive reporting descriptors on the perceived credibility and voter support of a female politician
… negative and aggressive reporting descriptors of female political candidates by the media influences the perception of candidate credibility and voter support. Other researchers have found that female politicians are more likely than male politicians to be subjected to negative and aggressive …
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Female Political Representation: A Global Analysis and a Domestic Proposal
… representation. Understanding the benefits that female politicians bring to society leads to conversations about why nations everywhere should aim for parity and how to achieve it. I will then focus on the situation in the United States, the inadequate female political representation, and reasons …
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Language use and gender in the Italian parliament
… in the Italian parliament. The increase of female politicians in the public sphere in Italy and throughout the world justifies the investigation of their language use, in relation to that of their male counterparts. In this project, I analyse the use of three linguistic phenomena: 1. forms …
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Visual Framing: A Study in Face-ism from the Websites for the 108th United States Congress.
… reinforced the media's stereotypical frame of female politicians. A total of 3,892 photographic images were captured from 540 websites and coded using the face-ism index. Overall, the results supported the face-ism theory. Images of females were cropped lower on their bodies than images of …
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Media Representations and Implications For Collective Memory: A Grounded Theory Analysis of TV News Broadcasts of Hillary Clinton From 1993-2008
… formation of collective memory associated with female politicians, especially at the national level. Using a grounded theory analysis, the study identifies three themes that are present in network television news stories covering Clinton during her life when it was most public, from 1993 through …
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The Journeys of Women in Local Elected Office: From Community Engagement to Making Meaningful Contributions
… of research, however, attributes the dearth of female politicians to a lack of political ambition among women and to gender socialization that prevents women from seeing themselves as political leaders.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to use a grounded theory approach to understand the …
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Media representations of gender in the Scottish public sphere in the context of the 2014 independence referendum
… to explore the mediated representations of these politicians. It first looks to the patterns emerging from a large volume of data before moving on to a more detailed analysis of how language is used to construct discourses of gender. Findings show an overall conversationalisation of discourse but …
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Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family
Female politicians are heavily constrained by discourses that prescribe masculine values as natural, yet at times they draw on societal expectations of femininity that allow them to utilize such discourses to their advantage. Motherhood, a feminine yet powerful role, provides such an opportunity. …
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Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family
Female politicians are heavily constrained by discourses that prescribe masculine values as natural, yet at times they draw on societal expectations of femininity that allow them to utilize such discourses to their advantage. Motherhood, a feminine yet powerful role, provides such an opportunity. …
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Essays on Intra-Household Bargaining Power of Women in India
… the household increases with the presence of female politicians at both state and local level. Studying the causal impact of a variable like female political representation is generally riddled with concerns of endogeneity for existence of voter preference. Using share of seats won by women in …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… to understate: the difficulties of mobilising female politicians when instability and sectarian schisms have deepened as a result of international intervention, as well as when conservative Islam is politicised and has a profound influence on the emerging political order.The analyses will …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… to understate: the difficulties of mobilising female politicians when instability and sectarian schisms have deepened as a result of international intervention, as well as when conservative Islam is politicised and has a profound influence on the emerging political order.The analyses will …
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When Women Matter: The Relationship Between Women's Presence and Policy Representation in Western European States
… has become a priority for a number of activists, politicians, and international governing organizations. This focus can largely be attributed to the belief that doing so provides normative benefits for women through increased policy representation. Despite the prevalence of this assumption, …
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Politics, Feminism, and Popular Television: Madam Secretary as a Politician, Wife, and Mother
… male characters, leaving a gap in the study of female political characters. This study looks at the representation of the character of the US Secretary of State, Elizabeth McCord, in the television drama <em>Madam Secretary</em> in order to evaluate whether the show challenges or reproduces the …
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Creating Political Leaders: Lawyer Stories About Transitioning into Political Office in Canada
… intopolitics. Early exposure to politics and politicians provided advanced insight about the work of politicians. Many participants were encouraged by others to run for political office because of their legal skills and social networking.</p> <p>Statements about getting through the initial …