Women and Power in Parliamentary Democracies: Cabinet Appointments in Western Europe, 1968-1992

by Rebecca Howard Davis

Margaret Thatcher, Mary Robinson, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Edith Cresson, and Simone Veil--these contemporary world leaders are as noteworthy for their gender as they are for the political directions they have provided. Indeed, female government leaders are so rare as to be almost an intellectual curiosity. Why is this the case? Why do women, who make up more than half of the world's population, occupy so few positions at the highest levels of political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803217072
• ISBN13: 9780803217072
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.7"