Still Counting: Women in Politics Across Canada

by Linda Trimble

Still Counting explains why scholars and activists continue to count the number of women elected to Canada's legislatures, and demonstrates that, by any measure, women are only halfway to equal. The authors assert that an "electoral glass ceiling" is keeping women at or below the 25 per cent mark, restricting women to less than half of the seats that would be theirs in a democracy committed to balanced, equitable, and fair representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442600543
• ISBN13: 9781442600546
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages