Gendered Policy Making? Access of female MPs to legislative committees in German State Legislatures

• In Event: Substantive Representation

Brief Overview

In this paper, we show that access to legislative committees is gendered, and women are less likely to become members and chairs of more important committees such as finance or economics.

Authors

• Vera Eva Troeger, Universität Hamburg

• Philip Manow, University of Bremen

• Verena Fetscher, University of Hamburg