Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas

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Autor(a) principal: Santos, M. H.
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Amâncio, L., Alves, H.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/id/ci-pub-13431
http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14575
Resumo: Drawing on the conceptualization of meritocracy as an illusion, we argue that perceptions of merit and fairness of sex quotas in politics are influenced by gender ideology, specifically gender symbolical asymmetry, which equates men with individuals and the universal reference of 'person', and women with a sexed category. A total of 311 Portuguese participants read one of eight scenarios manipulating the sex and political competence of two candidates for an electoral list where only one would be selected. According to the experimental condition, either the female or the male candidate was presented as more competent or both candidates were presented as equally competent. In the control condition no such information was provided. Participants rated the merit of the selected candidate and the fairness of quotas. Results show that men take mostly only the candidates’ competence information into consideration. Reflecting gender symbolic asymmetry women were also influenced by the fact that the selected candidate was male or female. Results are discussed in the light of the gender symbolic asymmetry model.
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title Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas
spellingShingle Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas
Santos, M. H.
Fairness
Gender
Gender quotas
Merit
Politics
Symbolic asymmetry
title_short Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas
title_full Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas
title_fullStr Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas
title_full_unstemmed Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas
title_sort Gender and politics: the relevance of gender on judgements about the merit of candidates and the fairness of quotas
author Santos, M. H.
author_facet Santos, M. H.
Amâncio, L.
Alves, H.
author_role author
author2 Amâncio, L.
Alves, H.
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Santos, M. H.
Amâncio, L.
Alves, H.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Fairness
Gender
Gender quotas
Merit
Politics
Symbolic asymmetry
topic Fairness
Gender
Gender quotas
Merit
Politics
Symbolic asymmetry
description Drawing on the conceptualization of meritocracy as an illusion, we argue that perceptions of merit and fairness of sex quotas in politics are influenced by gender ideology, specifically gender symbolical asymmetry, which equates men with individuals and the universal reference of 'person', and women with a sexed category. A total of 311 Portuguese participants read one of eight scenarios manipulating the sex and political competence of two candidates for an electoral list where only one would be selected. According to the experimental condition, either the female or the male candidate was presented as more competent or both candidates were presented as equally competent. In the control condition no such information was provided. Participants rated the merit of the selected candidate and the fairness of quotas. Results show that men take mostly only the candidates’ competence information into consideration. Reflecting gender symbolic asymmetry women were also influenced by the fact that the selected candidate was male or female. Results are discussed in the light of the gender symbolic asymmetry model.
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