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Women's Rights in Germany: Generations and Gender Quotas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2014

Christina Xydias
Christina Xydias*
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Clarkson University
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Although previous research shows compellingly that female officeholders engage in advocacy for women, measured in a range of ways, at greater rates than their male colleagues, studies have also shown that the content of this advocacy is highly varied (Celis 2006; Chattopadhyay and Duflo 2004; Reingold 2000). Further, identifying the factors that shape which legislators engage in which kind of advocacy is more complex than merely distinguishing between women and men or between feminist and traditionalist orientations. Many diverse voices engage in the substantive representation of women, which is broadly defined as all of the ways in which representatives “act for” women (Mansbridge 1999; Phillips 1995; Pitkin 1967).

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Politics & Gender , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 4 - 32
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2014 

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