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Credentials and Cabinet Ministers: Do Women Have to be Better Qualified or do Women Look Just Like Men?
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Credentials and Cabinet Ministers:
Do Women have to be Better Qualified or do Women Look Just Like Men?
NEW TITLE: Just a pretty face? Credentials of male and female ministers in
presidential democracies
Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
Texas A&M University
Department of Political Science
College Station, TX 77843-4348
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Abstract
Is there a gendered pattern to the qualifications needed for cabinet appointments?
Are female cabinet ministers appointed to portfolios in which they have credibility? We explore whether cabinet recruitment is gendered by comparing across portfolio assignments and across countries. We utilize data from five presidential democracies – Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and the United States - in current and recent presidential administrations to explore the qualifications needed for different types of cabinet portfolios and then whether female appointees are held to the same standards of experience and qualifications as their male colleagues. This paper thus contributes to the comparative literature on executives and to the study of women in politics and gendered institutions.
Paper Prepared for Presentation at the Midwestern Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 3 – 6, 2008. Please contact the authors for the most recent version prior to citation. Comments and suggestions welcome.
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Credentials and Cabinet Ministers:
Do Women have to be Better Qualified or do Women Look Just Like Men?
NEW TITLE: Just a pretty face? Credentials of male and female ministers in
presidential democracies
Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
Texas A&M University
Department of Political Science
College Station, TX 77843-4348
Abstract
Is there a gendered pattern to the qualifications needed for cabinet appointments?
Are female cabinet ministers appointed to portfolios in which they have credibility? We
explore whether cabinet recruitment is gendered by comparing across portfolio
assignments and across countries. We utilize data from five presidential democracies –
Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and the United States - in current and recent
presidential administrations to explore the qualifications needed for different types of
cabinet portfolios and then whether female appointees are held to the same standards of
experience and qualifications as their male colleagues. This paper thus contributes to the
comparative literature on executives and to the study of women in politics and gendered
institutions.
Paper Prepared for Presentation at the Midwestern Political Science Association
Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 3 – 6, 2008.
Please contact the authors for the most recent version prior to citation. Comments
and suggestions welcome.
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