Still Counting : : Women in Politics Across Canada / / Linda Trimble, Jane Arscott.
Still Counting explains why scholars and activists continue to count the number of women elected to Canada's legislatures, and demonstrates that, by any measure, women are only halfway to equal. The authors assert that an "electoral glass ceiling" is keeping women at or below the 25 p...
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