Doctoral Dissertation Research: Politics at the Intersection: A Cross-National Analysis of Minority Women's Legislative Representation

俄亥俄州立大学在过去的几十年里，世界各国的妇女和少数群体都在提高政治代表性方面取得了进展。 但即使在基本层面上，我们也不明白这些进步如何影响了少数民族妇女的立法代表权。 该项目的独特之处在于，它是对解释少数群体妇女立法代表性的因素进行的第一次大规模跨国调查。 利用各种档案来源，并在外语专家的帮助下，我们收集了来自世界各地100多个国家的政治家的性别和少数民族地位的数据。 利用这些新数据，共同主要研究者调查了三个关键研究问题：（1）地球仪妇女政治代表性的增加是否仅限于大多数民族、种族、语言和宗教群体中的妇女？ (2)政治和选举制度、少数群体的数量和类型以及更大的历史和社会政治背景等因素如何促进或阻碍女性少数群体的政治代表性？ (3)族裔冲突或性别/族裔配额是否创造了促进少数群体妇女立法代表权的战略机会？ 拟议的分析超越了简单的描述，使用结构方程建模技术（SEM）来预测少数民族妇女的立法代表。 总的来说，这项研究进一步社会学的性别和少数民族地位的交叉身份如何影响少数民族妇女的权力的理解。 这项研究还推动了关于妇女参政的跨国研究，迄今为止，这项研究还没有考虑到妇女之间的重要差异。 此外，它有助于调查各国边缘化群体的重要但具有挑战性的工作。 这个项目也有更广泛的影响。 这些数据和研究结果都将向公众公布，以便决策者和活动家掌握提高女性少数群体在公共生活中地位的工具。 此外，该项目收集关于少数群体政治代表性的数据-包括男性和女性-其他研究人员可利用这些数据来研究一系列重要成果，如民主、更广泛的社会不平等和种族冲突。 最后，随着政党和政府继续将妇女和少数群体纳入其队伍，这项研究提醒人们不要忘记处于这些社会身份交叉点的个人的特殊地位

Pamela PaxtonMelanie HughesOhio State University Over the last few decades in countries around the world, both women and minority groups have made progress towards greater political representation. But even at a basic level, we do not understand how these advancements have affected the legislative representation of minority women. This project is unique in that it serves as the first large-scale, cross-national investigation of the factors that explain minority women's legislative representation. Drawing upon a variety of archival sources and with the help of foreign language experts, we collect data on the gender and minority status of politicians from over 100 countries around the world. Using this new data, the co-PI investigates three key research questions: (1) Have increases in women's political representation across the globe been limited to women in majority ethnic, racial, linguistic, and religious groups? (2) How do factors such as the political and electoral system, the number and types of minority groups, and the larger historical and sociopolitical context facilitate or hinder the political representation of female minorities? (3) Do ethnic conflict or gender/ethnic quotas create strategic opportunities that further minority women's legislative representation? The proposed analyses go beyond simple description, using structural equation modeling techniques (SEM) to predict minority women's legislative representation. Overall, this research furthers sociological understanding of how the intersecting identities of gender and minority status influence the power of minority women. The study also advances cross-national research on women in politics, which so far has not considered important differences among women. Further, it contributes to the important but challenging work of investigating marginalized groups across countries. This project also has broader impacts. Both the data and the study's findings will be made available to the public so that policymakers and activists have the tools to advance the position of female minorities in public life. In addition, this project collects data on the political representation of minorities--both male and female--that other researchers may use to study a range of important outcomes, such as democracy, broader societal inequality, and ethnic conflict. Finally, as political parties and governments continue to incorporate women and minority groups into their ranks, this research serves as a reminder not to forget the special position of individuals at the intersection of these social identities