The weight on her shoulders: marginalization of women legislators in parliaments and substantive representation of women

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• What: Using several measures of individual-level marginality the authors show that marginalized female legislators are more prone to engage in gender-related parliamentary activity than their less marginal counterparts albeit only under a certain threshold of women`s marginality as a group. To examine the relationship between women legislators` marginalization and substantive representation, the authors focus on Israel, a ‘most likely` case for the analysis . Next, the authors show that this relationship obtains only in contexts of low group marginalization. As the authors show in this article, marginality changes not only between legislators but also for . . .
  

   

  

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