Open AccessGender, Power and Privilege in the Parliamentary Workplace
Author(s) -
Josefina Erikson,
Tània Verge
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
parliamentary affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.01
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1460-2482
pISSN - 0031-2290
DOI - 10.1093/pa/gsaa048
Subject(s) - parliament , legislature , privilege (computing) , perspective (graphical) , power (physics) , representation (politics) , sociology , politics , section (typography) , political science , gender studies , law , public administration , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , advertising , business
This introduction to the Special Section ‘Parliaments as workplaces: gendered approaches to the study of legislatures’ makes the case for revisiting the conditions under which male and female Members of Parliament (MPs) and staff carry out their parliamentary duties, thereby furthering the understanding of parliaments’ inner workings. It shows that adopting a workplace perspective grounded on feminist institutionalist analyses and gender organisational studies opens up new avenues for studying parliaments and the outcomes of political representation. The article then outlines how contributors to this Special Section deal with various aspects of the parliamentary workplace and concludes by highlighting the wider implications of this perspective for examining crucial questions of the parliamentary studies research agenda.