This book analyzes how the media covers women leaders and reinforces gendered
evaluations of their candidacies and performance. It deals with current transformations in …

Leadership is essential to collective human endeavor, from setting and accomplishing goals
for a neighborhood block association, to running a Fortune 500 company, to mobilizing the …

Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium argues that the power of gender works to help
keep gender, race, class, sexual, and national divisions in place despite increasing attention …

In early 2010 just over a dozen women served as heads of state or government around the
world–as presidents or prime ministers; additionally, a mere 16.9 percent of cabinet …

What difference does gender make to foreign diplomacy? What do we know about women's
participation as decision-makers in international affairs? Is it fair to assume, as many …

This exhaustive exploration of the sociocultural, political, and economic roles of African
women through history demonstrates how African women have shaped—and continue to …

This article presents initial findings from one of the first comparative studies of women as
foreign policy decision-makers in Western industrial systems. It begins with an overview of …

Accessible and student-friendly, Global Gender Politics analyzes the gendered divisions of
power, labor, and resources that contribute to the global crises of representation, violence …

Angela Merkel is unique among post-war German chancellors in that she is a woman, she is
from the former German Democratic Republic, and she is the first with a background in the …

This article presents empirical findings on two questions: what are the 'political step**
stones' on the way to the prime ministerial post? Are there any differences between female …