Abstract
In public service institutions occupational gender segregation persists. These institutions are often gendered with predominantly masculine organisational cultures. The lack of passive and active representation of women has implications for public policy outcomes. This paper suggests a normative typology of the passive and active representation of women in bureaucracies, vis-à-vis institutional strategies to address the under-representation of women. The typology is based on: a theoretical discussion of representative bureaucracy; and a critical discussion of strategies to improve the representation of women. A key feature of the paper is the development of a typology with a suggested concinnity of institutional strategies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 531-546 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Policy & Politics |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2014 |
Keywords
- bureaucracy
- representation
- public policy
- gender
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- JOHNSTON_2015_cright_PP_Representative bureaucracy A typology of normative institutional strategies for the representation of women
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Policy & Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version "Representative bureaucracy: a typology of normative institutional strategies for the representation of women", Policy & Politics, 42(4), October 2016, pp. 531-546, is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655738