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Meier, Petra. "Do they talk about power? Policy frames on gender inequality in politics as a threshold for women to positions of political decision-making" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2008-11-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152139_index.html>

Meier, P. , 2006-08-31 "Do they talk about power? Policy frames on gender inequality in politics as a threshold for women to positions of political decision-making" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2008-11-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152139_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: Power is a central theme in the field of gender and politics and one of the questions is how gender related thresholds work in the access to positions of power, such as the gender bias of selection criteria or electoral systems. The present paper aims at studying a particular potential threshold for women on their way to power positions. Analyzing policy documents on the issue of gender inequality in politics, we study how and to what extent political power is framed. The issue of gender inequality in politics was a case in the larger MAGEEQ-project (www.mageeq.org) studying how gender inequality as a policy problem is subject to a variety of interpretations that, consciously or unconsciously, affect the framing of public policies. Drawing on the literature on social movements (Snow and Benford 1992, 1988), the MAGEEQ-project has further developed the methodology of frame analysis, studying such frames in a comparative perspective (Verloo 2005). A preliminary analysis of the findings has shown that prognosis tends to reflect a benchmarking fallacy, translating the lack of parity into vague target figures, or that political leave is admitted but not for international top positions (Meier et al. 2005). Other policy documents, conversely, reflect a deeper reading of power and distinguish between ‘power over’ and ‘power to’ and characterize women’s power in the second way (Lombardo et al. 2005). In the present paper we study in depth how and to what extent political power is framed in policy documents across two EU member states (Spain and the Netherlands) and at the EU level itself. How is political power framed in policy documents on gender inequality in politics? Are they about power at all or is this issue silenced out? What do policy documents say about power? What is the representation of political power? Who says what? What do alternative frames say about power? The underlying hypothesis is that policy documents set out the lines for policy initiatives to be executed. Therefore, they are an important leverage for the study of gender related thresholds in the access to positions of power. The discussion of the findings will lead to a deeper reflection on the extent to which recent policy documents on gender inequality in politics consider power from a gendered perspective.

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