POL 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indira Gandhi, Critical Mass

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 501
• Professor: Miriam Anderson

Document Summary

Women"s views on women and their policy priorities. Believe they are better at representing women"s concerns. More likely to prioritize children, family and women. More likely to view crime as having social roots: favoured prevention over punishement. For example, village councils in india: women are concerned with drinking water and welfare programs, men are concerned with roads. Acting differently: women"s voting patterns and bill sponsorship. Hard to separate women reps. from parties. Hard to separate women reps from constituents. Women are more likely to support women"s issue bills than men (e. g. family, medical leave, etc) E. g. village council chiefs in india with women are more likely to invest in public goods related to women. Equally successful as men at getting bills passed generally. Women"s issue bills less likely to be passed: e. g. women in uganda attempted to change law regarding land tenure. Men may attempt to preserve power by underminding women.