Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Espírito-Santo, Ana
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Sanches, Edalina
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/39682
Resumo: This article investigates the role of key individual-level factors, namely expertise, seniority and preferences in women’s assignments to legislative committees. It focuses on Portugal and draws on biographical data on MPs in five elections until 2009 and interviews with 20 legislators in 2014. The results show that female and male MPs have a similar probability of being appointed to powerful and economic issue committees, but female MPs are more likely to be appointed to social issue committees regardless of expertise and seniority. Although this outcome might be the product of their own preferences, it is influenced by embedded gender norms.
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spelling Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in PortugalCommittee assignmentExpertiseSeniorityPreferencesPortugalWomenThis article investigates the role of key individual-level factors, namely expertise, seniority and preferences in women’s assignments to legislative committees. It focuses on Portugal and draws on biographical data on MPs in five elections until 2009 and interviews with 20 legislators in 2014. The results show that female and male MPs have a similar probability of being appointed to powerful and economic issue committees, but female MPs are more likely to be appointed to social issue committees regardless of expertise and seniority. Although this outcome might be the product of their own preferences, it is influenced by embedded gender norms.Oxford University PressRepositório da Universidade de LisboaEspírito-Santo, AnaSanches, Edalina2019-10-02T13:53:20Z20202020-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/39682engEspírito-Santo, A., Sanches, E. R. (2020). Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal. Parliamentary Affairs, 73 (2), 450-472. Published online 13 February 2019. DOI 10.1093/pa/gsz00410.1093/pa/gsz004info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:38:36Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/39682Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:53:31.589481Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal
spellingShingle Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal
Espírito-Santo, Ana
Committee assignment
Expertise
Seniority
Preferences
Portugal
Women
title_short Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal
title_full Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal
title_fullStr Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal
title_sort Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal
author Espírito-Santo, Ana
author_facet Espírito-Santo, Ana
Sanches, Edalina
author_role author
author2 Sanches, Edalina
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Espírito-Santo, Ana
Sanches, Edalina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Committee assignment
Expertise
Seniority
Preferences
Portugal
Women
topic Committee assignment
Expertise
Seniority
Preferences
Portugal
Women
description This article investigates the role of key individual-level factors, namely expertise, seniority and preferences in women’s assignments to legislative committees. It focuses on Portugal and draws on biographical data on MPs in five elections until 2009 and interviews with 20 legislators in 2014. The results show that female and male MPs have a similar probability of being appointed to powerful and economic issue committees, but female MPs are more likely to be appointed to social issue committees regardless of expertise and seniority. Although this outcome might be the product of their own preferences, it is influenced by embedded gender norms.
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