@inbook{e4cd878589f24e3d918ae4a91b479314,
title = "Women, Participation and the European Parliament",
abstract = "The European Parliament (EP) as an institution can be understood as having the potential for becoming {\textquoteleft}a strong public{\textquoteright} which is undergoing a process of building a wider general public: {\textquoteleft}The EP can be conceived of as an incipient transnational public sphere{\textquoteright} (Liebert 2007: 268). This makes the EP an apt institutional setting for analyzing both women´s descriptive representation within it, as well as analyzing the debates about women´s representation, in politics and business, which are taking place within the EP. We thus conduct a two-pronged analysis of the who of public sphere participation (Ferree et al. 2002) by looking both at the gender composition of the EP and the framing of debates about women´s representation within the EP and its Committee on Women{\textquoteright}s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) during the period 2000-2011.",
keywords = "European Parliament, Quotas, Representation, Participation, FEMM Committee, European enlargement, Transnational",
author = "{Pristed Nielsen}, Helene and Agustin, {Lise Rolandsen}",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1057/9781137291295",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-230-35968-0",
volume = "2013",
series = "Gender and Politics",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "201--222",
editor = "Birte Siim and Monika Mokre",
booktitle = "Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere",
}
