The silent sex : gender, deliberation, and institutions / Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karpowitz, Christopher F., 1969- author.

Mendelberg, Tali, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mendelberg, Tali.

Corporate meetings.

Women.

Social participation.

Social interaction.

Social groups.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 p.)

Edition:

Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to improve the representation of women will fall short unless they address institutional rules that impede women's voices. Using groundbreaking experimental research supplemented with analysis of school boards, Christopher Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg demonstrate how the effects of rules depend on women's numbers, so that small numbers are not fatal with a consensus process, but consensus is not always beneficial when there are large numbers of women. Men and women enter deliberative settings facing different expectations about their influence and authority. Karpowitz and Mendelberg reveal how the wrong institutional rules can exacerbate women's deficit of authority while the right rules can close it, and, in the process, establish more cooperative norms of group behavior and more generous policies for the disadvantaged. Rules and numbers have far-reaching implications for the representation of women and their interests. Bringing clarity and insight to one of today's most contentious debates, The Silent Sex provides important new findings on ways to bring women's voices into the conversation on matters of common concern.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Problem

Chapter 2. The Sources of the Gender Gap in Political Participation

Chapter 3. Why Women Don't Speak

Chapter 4. The Deliberative Justice Experiment

Chapter 5. Speech as a Form of Participation: Floor Time and Perceived Influence

Chapter 6. What Makes Women the "Silent Sex" When Their Status Is Low?

Chapter 7. Does Descriptive Representation Facilitate Women's Distinctive Voice?

Chapter 8. Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction

Chapter 9. When Women Speak, Groups Listen-Sometimes: How and When Women's Voice Shapes the Group's Generosity

Chapter 10. Gender Inequality in School Boards

Conclusion

Appendixes

Index

Credits:

Jacket photograph © Africa Studio/Shutterstock. Jacket design by Lorraine Doneker.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691159768

0691159769

9781400852697

1400852692

OCLC:

884280093