Gender and Family Ties in Latin American Legislatures

Autor:	Agustín Vallejo, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, Francisco Cantú
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Gender Studies Latin Americans Sociology and Political Science Family ties Political science 0502 economics and business 05 social sciences 050602 political science & public administration Legislature Gender studies 050207 economics 0506 political science
Zdroj:	Politics & Gender. 18:158-182
ISSN:	1743-9248 1743-923X
DOI:	10.1017/s1743923x20000288
Popis:	Are women disproportionately more likely than men to have family ties in politics? We study this question in Latin America, where legacies have been historically common, and we focus specifically on legislatures, where women's representation has increased dramatically in many countries. We hypothesize that, counter to conventional wisdom, women should be no more likely than men to have ties to political families. However, this may vary across legislatures with and without gender quotas. Our empirical analysis uses data from the Parliamentary Elites of Latin America survey. We find more gender similarities than differences in legislators’ patterns of family ties both today and over the past 20 years. We also find that women are more likely to have family ties than men in legislatures without gender quotas, whereas this difference disappears in legislatures with quotas.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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