Articles by Audrey Vandeleene

March 13, 2025

🌈 Sexism in politics: a barrier to women’s representation

Audrey Vandeleene
Sexism in politics restricts women’s participation and weakens democracy. A study by Hilde Coffé and colleagues on the 2024 legislative elections in Belgium reveals the impact of sexist attacks, stereotypes, and dismissals on women candidates, shaping careers, silencing voices, and discouraging future leaders. Tackling these problems is crucial for building truly representative politics
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Audrey Vandeleene
Senior Researcher, Department of Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles

Audrey graduated from UCLouvain and was a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University (Sweden) and Ghent University (Belgium).

Her research interests cover intra-party democracy, political elites, representation, and women in politics.

Her work has been published in Electoral Studies, Party Politics, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Representation, American Behavioral Scientist and Parliamentary Affairs.

As of 2024, she is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Politics of the Low Countries.

Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy Kindle Edition
by Audrey Vandeleene (Editor), Lieven De Winter (Editor), Pierre Baudewyns (Editor)

Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Co-editor, with Lieven De Winter and Pierre Baudewyns

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