Gender, Crisis and Political Power (Pre-Recorded)

Session Submission Type: In-Person Created Panel

Session Description

The conventional wisdom holds that crises create opportunities but also pitfalls for women leaders: power vacuums may facilitate their rise to power, but such moments may also create “glass cliffs” that contribute to women leaders’ downfall. This panel pushes this conventional wisdom forward, asking scholars to advance and refine our theoretical expectations about gender, crisis, and access to political power. The panel includes four papers from scholars ranging from PhD candidates to full professors/deans, based in three different countries (Canada, Chile, and the US), and researching cases throughout the Americas and Europe. Issues addressed include the impact of violent protest on women’s access to political power, the relationship between the type of crisis at hand and a leader’s gender, and an intersectional analysis of cyber violence against women elected officials.

Sub Unit

• Division 31: Women, Gender, and Politics Research

Individual Presentations

• Protests as Gendered Crises: Impacts on Women’s Representation and Leadership - Julieta Suarez-Cao, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Carmen Le Foulon, Centro de Estudios Públicos; Catherine Reyes-Housholder, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• Who Can Do What: Gender, Leadership and Crisis - Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami; Malliga Och, Idaho State University; Farida Jalalzai, Virginia Tech

• Backlash and Crisis: When Pushback is Not About Policy - Anna Calasanti, University of New Mexico

Chair

• Aili Mari Tripp University of Wisconsin, Madison

Discussants

• Jennifer M. Piscopo Occidental College

• Rachel E. Brule Boston University