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Author Karpowitz, Christopher F., 1969- author.

Title The silent sex : gender, deliberation, and institutions / Christopher F. Karpowitz, Tali Mendelberg
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 450 pages)
Contents The problem -- The sources of the gender gap in political participation -- Why women don't speak -- The deliberative justice experiment -- Speech as a form of participation: floor time and perceived influence -- What makes women the "silent sex" when their status is low? -- Does descriptive representation facilitate women's distinctive voice? -- Unpacking the black box of interaction -- When women speak, groups listen, sometimes: how and when women's voice shapes the group's generosity -- Gender inequality in school boards
Summary "Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to improve the representation of women will fall short unless they address institutional rules that impede women's voices. Using groundbreaking experimental research supplemented with analysis of school boards, Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg demonstrate how the effects of rules depend on women's numbers, so that small numbers are not fatal with a consensus process, but consensus is not always beneficial when there are large numbers of women. Men and women enter deliberative settings facing different expectations about their influence and authority. Karpowitz and Mendelberg reveal how the wrong institutional rules can exacerbate women's deficit of authority while the right rules can close it, and, in the process, establish more cooperative norms of group behavior and more generous policies for the disadvantaged. Rules and numbers have far-reaching implications for the representation of women and their interests. Bringing clarity and insight to one of today's most contentious debates, The Silent Sex provides important new findings on ways to bring women's voices into the conversation on matters of common concern"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis American politics
American women
advanced economies
all-female groups
authoritative representation
authority
children
civic activists
civic organizations
class privileges
compassion issues
confidence
confident participants
consensus process
cooperation
decision making
decision-making groups
deliberation
deliberative democracy
democracy
descriptive representation
disadvantaged groups
education
efficacy
ethnicity
female citizens
gender composition
gender differences
gender gap
gender
government intervention
group behaviour
group interaction
group-level factors
income redistribution
inequality
influence
international speakers
justice
lower confidence
majority rule
majority-rule meetings
meetings
men
minorities
minority status
mixed-gender combinations
modern America
political participation
politics
poor populations
poverty
public affairs
race
representation
school boards
second-class citizens
silent sex
social group
solidarity
speech
substantive representation
symbolic representation
taxes
women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Credits Jacket photograph © Africa Studio/Shutterstock. Jacket design by Lorraine Doneker
Notes Print version record
Subject Börngen, ...
Corporate meetings.
Women.
Social participation.
Social interaction.
Social groups.
Social psychology.
Women
Social Participation
Psychology, Social
social psychology.
women (female humans)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Corporate meetings
Social groups
Social interaction
Social participation
Social psychology
Women
Zusammenkunft
Beratungsgremium
Geschlechterrolle
Geschlechterforschung
Sitzung
Interaktion
Gruppe
Sozialpsychologie
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Mendelberg, Tali, author.
ISBN 9781400852697
1400852692
9781306988568
130698856X