@article{14366,
  keywords = {Gender and Deliberation},
  author = {Tali Mendelberg and Christopher Karpowitz and Lauren Mattioli},
  title = {Gender and Women{\textquoteright}s Influence in Public Settings},
  abstract = {<p>Does gender equality in public meetings improve as women{\textquoteright}s numbers grow?Research applying critical mass theory to the exercise of influence in publicdiscussion and decision making reveals a complicated story. Women have madesignificant progress in education, employment, and the attainment of elected office;yet, they continue to lag behind their male counterparts in substantive, symbolic,and authoritative representation. Across political, nonpolitical, and experimentalsettings, women{\textquoteright}s participation and influence does not follow necessarily from theirnumerical proportion. We review previous studies of how women{\textquoteright}s lower status ismanifested in group interaction, and we argue that research can better identify whenand how numbers matter by attending to the group{\textquoteright}s context, institutional features,and informal norms. We describe cutting-edge research designed to explore theeffects of institutional rules and norms on women{\textquoteright}s authority. Women{\textquoteright}s increasingnumbers in positions of potential influence constitutes a timely, promising, andchallenging agenda for further scholarship.</p>
},
  year = {2015},
  journal = {Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource},
  pages = {1{\textendash}14},
  publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ, USA},
  url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0139},
  doi = {10.1002/9781118900772.},
}