EPQ planning
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- Why are there not more female MPs in the House of Commons?
- The media
- 'a structured marginalisation of women (Adcock, 2010)
- 'a boys' club being reported on by a boys' club'
- A lack of reporting on women's issues and female opinions on other issues leads to women become disengaged from politics
- 'Activates' stereotypes so 'female candidates need to be incredibly strategic in crafting and controlling their campaign image'. (Bauer, 2015)
- Added stresses of campaigning and serves as a deterrant.
- Negative treatment
- Almost two-thirds of respondents had received sexist remarks by other MPs (BBC, 2017)
- Should be 'in the kitchen washing the dishes'
- Between 1st January and the 8th June 2017, female MPs received 25,688 abusive tweets, 2.85% of all received tweets.
- Discourages women from running.
- Negatively impacts on current MPs, affecting performance and reinforcing stereotypes
- Almost two-thirds of respondents had received sexist remarks by other MPs (BBC, 2017)
- Perceived difficulty
- 52% of women (compared to 42% of men) were deterred by at least one aspect of a political campaign (Fox and Lawless, 2012)
- Added stresses of campaigning and serves as a deterrant.
- Socialiazation and stereotypes
- 'the process of learning the culture of any society' (Browne, 2015)
- Boys encouraged to 'encouraged to think independently, be active and speak up'. (Chapman, 2002)
- Men more suited to politics as they have been socialized into politically relevant traits.
- Women socialized into traditional roles
- 43% of women compared to 7% are responsible for the majority of household tasks. 60% of women compared to 6% of men are responsible for the majority of childcare.
- Women undertake the triple shift - 'paid work, domestic labour and childcare, and emotional work' (Browne, 2015)
- Impacts on current female MPs and can lead to underperformance, reinforcing stereotypes
- Women have less time to even consider becoming an MP
- Negatively impacts on current MPs, affecting performance and reinforcing stereotypes
- Constitutional and political issues
- Conservative women are more likely to be a candidate in marginal seats of seats with less or no chance of winning.
- A 2 main party system means women have to become candidates through already established parties
- There is evidence of political parties having 'widespread incidences of direct and indirect discrimination by party selectors towards women candidates', (Kenney, 2015).
- The party selection process is 'particularly adversarial, reflecting traditional male preferences' (Lovenduski, Russel and Stephenson, 2002)
- First Past the Post
- Not one overview of all candidates so no incentive to field more women. (Lovenduski, Russel and Stephenson, 2002)
- In systems such as proportional representation, parties are less likely to gain a majority so much appeal to a wide range of voters. (Lovenduski, Russel and Stephenson, 2002)
- The media
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