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on the pieces related to #COVID19, electoral politics & women in office. Are women leaders better at fighting covid? How does politicians' gender matter for pandemic responses? Answers are
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. A Saturdayon the pieces related to #COVID19, electoral politics & women in office. Are women leaders better at fighting covid? How does politicians' gender matter for pandemic responses? Answers are 1/10
My article to start: it's not about women leaders, it's about where women get elected. Today, the "high capacity" Global North countries are more likely to elect women. And these countries have better coronavirus outcomes, whether led by women or men. 2/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/women-leaders-and-pandemic-performance-a-spurious-correlation/69FA5BD035CEE66F0FFFC61DF037DD0E
Related, @AndreAldrich & @NickLotito look at 132 countries (!) and find no evidence that leader gender matters for the timing of stay at home orders, school closures, or public information campaigns. 3/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/pandemic-performance-women-leaders-in-the-covid19-crisis/579B3EA9BE0CD8215EE2E74257252FED
And also Laine Shay finds the same when looking at U.S. governors: no affect of governor gender on the timing of stay-at-home orders. 4/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/closing-time-examining-the-impact-of-gender-and-executive-branch-policymakers-on-the-timing-of-stayathome-orders/5C65C252F63FBBF1B949B20A3BD1C109
So why the attraction of this media narrative when not empirically true? As I wrote, "Ardern and Merkel confound gendered expectations about womenâs fragility, acting with level-headedness while Bolsonaro and Trump bluster futilely." In fact, the next contribution.... 5/10
... from @BlairWilliams26 & Carol Johnson points out that #covid19 changes the gendered traits that voters value in their chief executives, decreasing the value of hypermasculinity and raising the value of empathy. 6/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/gender-and-political-leadership-in-a-time-of-covid/AA1F587847633222555949D9BD0FB5BC
And having women leaders matters in other ways. @kendallfunk12's contribution analyzing Black women mayors in the U.S. underscores their greater likelihood to enact measures that protect vulnerable communities, like increased social spending. 7/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/local-responses-to-a-global-pandemic-women-mayors-lead-the-way/28311D9DC2651D9B843A1318DFD2009B
But the media hype over women leaders obscures that women politicians are *still* marginalized from govts' #covid19 responses. @Jess_Smith1534 focuses on how women politicians are missing from #UK's daily #covid19 press briefings. 8/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/where-are-the-women-descriptive-representation-and-covid19-in-uk-daily-press-briefings/6E8ADB4812BBD519746ABB050A1A9CF2
Moreover, @MaluGatto & @Debora_Thome_ point out that #covid19 will make Brazilian women's access to campaign funds harder, so campaigns become an uphill battle. 9/10 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/resilient-aspirants-womens-candidacies-and-election-in-times-of-covid19/C7B9CC197A85B428EFA62FD4C940597C
En fin: #covid19 poses opportunities *but also* dangers for women leaders. Some
rise, but research by @reyeshousholder @MelaneeLThomas & @therunningprof shows that women also punished harder in crises. The backlash may be even greater than the hype. 10/10
rise, but research by @reyeshousholder @MelaneeLThomas & @therunningprof shows that women also punished harder in crises. The backlash may be even greater than the hype. 10/10
