The Puzzle of Minoritized Women’s Success? A Global Analysis, 2015–2020

• In Event: Minority Women’s Pathways to Power: Explaining Representation Across the World

Brief Overview

This paper develops a framework to explain why minoritized women sometimes achieve surprising legislative success, using data from 69 countries to distinguish proportionality from relative success.

Authors

• Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus

• Stephanie Seidel Holmsten, University of Texas at Austin