In the past two decades, women achieved significant gains in national legislatures by
advocating for improvements in healthcare, welfare programs, and the promotion of civil …

Despite the increase in the share of women in national legislatures in the developing world,
scholars are still debating if gender‐diversified legislatures promote women‐friendly policies …

This review assesses what is known and not known about the interface of gender and
governance. More specifically, the purpose of this review is to identify mechanisms that have …

As women's political inclusion has become the international norm, many countries have
implemented gender quotas or actively tried to increase women's political representation …

While individual women representatives in government have been found to behave
differently than men, the causal connection between the increased presence of women in …

In recent decades, women's ability to engage in politics and civil society has risen
dramatically across the globe. What has the increase in the number of women in politics …

This study aims to advance our understanding of why women are underrepresented in
legislatures around the world, and what accounts for the wide variation over time and across …

This article examines whether gender representation of government leadership in the
legislative and executive branches improves social equity related to women's social …

Recent decades have seen a surge in women occupying positions of political power. This
has been welcomed in part as a means of achieving better policy outcomes for women. We …

Despite the large amount of attention by politics and gender scholars to analyzing gender
parity in political representation and the impact of the increasing participation of women in …