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Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada - First-Hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics (Paperback)
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Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada - First-Hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics (Paperback)
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Most people are aware of the large and persistent gender imbalance
in elected office at all levels of government in Canada, but few
appreciate the far greater imbalance that occurs outside of large
cities. This deficit arises not from rural voter bias, but from low
numbers of female candidates running for winnable seats. The
question of why there are so few female candidates has been
difficult to answer, largely because we know so little about the
pool of potential candidates. Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic
Canada presents results from a regional field-based study, which
confronted this challenge directly for the first time. Louise
Carbert gathered together small groups of rural community leaders
(126 women in all) throughout the four Atlantic provinces, and
interviewed them about their experiences and perceptions of
leadership, public life, and running for elected office. Their
answers paint a vivid picture of politics in rural communities,
illustrating how it intersects with family life, work, and the
overall local economy. Through discussion of their own reasoned
aversion to holding elected office, and of resistance encountered
by those who have put their names forward, the interviewees shed
much-needed light on the pervasive barriers to the election of
women. Carbert not only contextualizes the results in terms of
economic and demographic structures of rural Atlantic Canada, but
also considers points of comparison and contrast with other parts
of the country.
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