POL 2505 - Gender and Politics

Prerequisite: POL 1000, POL 1005, or POL 1101
FDR: Social Science (SS2)
Credits: 3

This course investigates the gendered terms under which women and men participate in political life. Attention is given to the causes of men’s and women’s different patterns of participation in politics, to processes that are likely to decrease the inequalities between men’s and women’s political power, and the processes by which society’s gender expectations shape electoral and institutional politics. The different effects of gender on the practice of politics in different nations are compared, with a special emphasis placed on advanced industrial democracies.