Women and (dis)interest in government: How the status quo affects attitudes toward female politicians and intentions to participate in politics

When people are motivated to justify their socio-political systems they come to view the current status quo as the most desirable status quo--a process termed injunctification (Kay et al., 2009). Here, two studies suggest that injunctification processes can perpetuate gender inequalities in politics...

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Main Author: Friesen, Justin
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4645