Book Launch: 'Elect Women for a Change' by Professor Mona Lena Krook

*** Please note the change of venue: the event now takes place in Room 103, Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square ***

About the Book

Over the last three decades, women have made significant inroads into political life. Yet the equal and inclusive sharing of political power remains elusive. The number of women in political positions still falls short of full equality, and even when women enter politics, they often continue to be marginalized and do not reflect the full diversity of women as a group.

Elect Women for a Change provides a roadmap for achieving gender parity in politics, drawing on the author’s academic work and policy experience over more than 25 years working with international organizations, governments, and civil society groups. It covers the global parity movement, the concept of parity in terms of access, power, and diversity, the benefits of parity for democracy and policy, the main barriers to gender parity (socialization, discrimination, and backlash), and strategies used globally to overcome these barriers.

Elect Women for a Change. The Path to Gender Parity in Politics was published by Polity.
 

About the Speaker

Mona Lena Krook is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women & Politics Program at Rutgers University. She is the award-winning author of Quotas for Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Violence against Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020) and is currently editor of Politics & Gender, the leading academic journal on women, gender, and politics. Alongside her scholarly work, she has advised international organizations, governments, and activists around the world on strategies to promote women in politics – most recently, helping to draft General Recommendation No. 40 on equal and inclusive decision-making for the United Nations’ CEDAW Committee.

The event will be moderated by Phillip Ayoub, Professor of International Relations in the UCL Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at UCL) and Malu Gatto (Associate Professor of Latin American Politics at the UCL Institute of the Americas).

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