POG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Justice Of The Peace, Canadian Parliamentary Review, Parental Leave
4 Apr 2016
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When legislatures are diverse, we produce better public policies (increased outcomes, discussed, debated by people that reflect the entire society) *mirror representation (when the legislature looks like us) can also be applied to economic class, age, etc. International research that suggest that higher number of women in legislature politics help advance women"s rights/issues (sexual harassment, rape, abuse, etc) In canada, we often use our track record to justify for us to impart our values to other parts of the world (using gender equality as a fundamental base for a functioning democracy) Will they be thinking about issues regarding equality: legitimacy: mistrust (when legislature looks like one ethnic group, reduces the legitimacy because it doesn"t reflect us) Gender: dynamic between men and women (social constructs, masculine, feminine) Assumptions of how one should act being male and female . Mapping of masculine on male bodies and feminine on female bodies. Masculinity (dominance, assertiveness, athletic, physical prowess, protector, leader)
