For decades, European democracies have celebrated rising gender equality in parliaments, cabinets, and party leadership. These gains matter. But if we look only at elite politics, argue Catherine Bolzendahl and Hilde Coffé, we miss a quieter, equally consequential story: how ordinary women and men take part in democratic life
Director of the School of Public Policy and Professor of Sociology, Oregon State University
As a political sociologist focusing primarily on gender inequality in political engagement from a comparative perspective, Catherine has published studies of women’s legislative influence on social spending, legislative committees as gendered organisations, women’s political empowerment, and gender differences in political norms and activities.
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