Are Women Still Discriminated at the Polls?

Abstract

Women are still strongly underrepresented in many parliaments. For a long time the assumption was that women face disadvantages compared to men when they want to run and then also later by voters at the polls. This assumptions have been questioned in recent years, some studies pointing at a reduced or vanished gap at least during elections. In this panel we will welcome contributions that look at gender discrimination in the different phases of the electoral process with a special focus on how women perform in elections compared to men.