Valuable reminder
Daniel Lazar posted the introduction and a link to Jean Robinson's (Dr. Jean C. Robinson, Indiana University) briefing paper on his teaching blog.It's a good reminder of a valuable article, full of teaching ideas. Dig out your copy or download it from Daniel's site. Then plan some lessons with Jean's suggestions.
Thanks for the reminder, Daniel.
Gender & Comparative Politics
"We know that although women don’t come from Venus, and men aren’t from Mars, men and women do experience and participate in politics in very different ways. If we could line up all the leaders of the nations around the world, we would see few women. If we could put all the world’s legislators in the same auditorium, we would see more women, but it certainly would not be half (or rather 52%) of the legislative population. And if we counted up all the references to women, girls and females in comparative politics textbooks, we wouldn’t need many fingers to do the counting either!
"So why study how gender operates in politics?..."
This paper was once available on the Comparative Government and Politics "Course Home Page" at AP Central. I just looked and couldn't find it. If you see it there, let us know.
There are links to many other good briefing papers and feature articles on that page. It's worth the time of all AP teachers.
Labels: demographics, governance, political culture
posted by Ken Wedding @ 10:05 PM
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