Gender role encapsulation as resistance to patriarchy: Women politicians’ work and gender equality in India
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چکیده
Why has the gender-based reservation system not succeeded in achieving gender equality Indian politics? Both token theory and critical mass posit that equilibrating number of representatives from both genders will achieve equality. In India, this led to for women politics 1993 an increase representation, some states up 50%. Yet, we argue, these face role encapsulation their double minority position. Inspired by interpretivist ethnographic methods, study investigates everyday work politicians (village council presidents) Tamil Nadu. We show context, are positions contributes understanding modest results met with system. Simultaneously, points how use within traditional family structure serve political ambitions despite patriarchy. draw attention individual resistance, more precisely, insubordination stress politician challenging This enriching our forms assimilation theory: a who experiences deviance, entrapment is as limiting previous studies have assumed. also argue acts resistance can be carried out precisely through enactment reach change subject position, rather than opposition it.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Organization
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1350-5084', '1461-7323']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508421995764