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Gender, Citizenship and Empowerment

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Over the last 20 years access to democratic citizenship has become crucial for women. Women have increasingly participated in politics and in some countries, e.g. in Scandinavia, they have gradually increased their political organization and representation, with the result that women have gained a new political presence in the public sphere. Feminists question whether women’s participation in politics is an expression of women’s empowerment, defined as women’s ability to exert an influence in decision-making on the future development of the welfare state and democracy through an effective voice and vote (Young 1990: 251), or whether power differences are merely being reproduced in a new form (Hirdman 1990).

This essay was originally prepared for the XVIth World Congress of the International Political Science Association, 21–25 August 1994, Berlin. A revised version was presented at the CID workshop in Copenhagen, May 1995.

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  1. Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark

    Birte Siim (Political Scientist and Associate Professor)

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    Ian Gough (Professor of Social Policy) (Professor of Social Policy)

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Siim, B. (1999). Gender, Citizenship and Empowerment. In: Gough, I., Olofsson, G. (eds) Capitalism and Social Cohesion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379138_6

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