[POLS 280] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (46 pages long)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

Document Summary

Why we study women, gender and politics. Key terms and concepts for the course. Women and men"s experiences of politics are unique: but we have to be mindful of diversity among men and women as a group. Each group historically and today have different experiences. Women and men as votes behave differently. There is a gender gap between voters choice and women"s votes. Women have a stronger standard commitment to vote democratically then men do. Democratic is more left leaning and offer more things towards women and the gender gap giving women more opportunity. Women experience unique barriers and opportunities to attain office and. Once in office men"s and women"s experiences in office are often different and they often face different barriers and are put into groupings of jobs they can do . The fact that there are so many differences are reasons why we might want to study this topic further.