LEADER 03112nam 22006015 450 001 9910847392603321 005 20250807153112.0 010 $a9783031483288 010 $a3031483286 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-48328-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31281837 035 $a(CKB)31517833200041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31281837 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-48328-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931517833200041 100 $a20240410d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aToxic Parliaments $eAnd What Can Be Done About Them /$fby Marian Sawer, Maria Maley 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (135 pages) 225 1 $aGender and Politics,$x2662-5822 311 08$a9783031483271 311 08$a3031483278 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Women arrive in the parliamentary workplace -- 3. Institutional norms and the cost of doing politics -- 4. The arrival of #MeToo breaks the silence -- 5. Trying to turn parliament into a model workplace: UK, Canada, New Zealand -- 6. Australia catches up and what hope for the future? 330 $aThis open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries ? Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Long-standing conventions included extreme power imbalances between parliamentarians and staff and a lack of professionalised employment practices. Codes of conduct and independent complaints bodies were resisted on grounds of parliamentary privilege: the ballot box was supposedly the best means of holding parliamentarians accountable for their conduct. The taken-for-granted status of adversarial politics and its silencing effects also rendered gendered mistreatment invisible. The authors examine the institutional backdrop and the different trajectories of reform in the four countries, with most detail on the dramatic developments in Australia after angry women marched on parliament houses in 2021. They show how the different parliaments have responded to escalating evidence of misconduct, the role of policy borrowing, and the possibilities of lasting institutional change. 410 0$aGender and Politics,$x2662-5822 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aIdentity politics 606 $aSex 606 $aPublic Policy 606 $aPolitics and Gender 606 $aGender Studies 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aIdentity politics. 615 0$aSex. 615 14$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aPolitics and Gender. 615 24$aGender Studies. 676 $a328.36 700 $aSawer$b Marian$0125080 701 $aMaley$b Maria$01736493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910847392603321 996 $aToxic Parliaments$94156352 997 $aUNINA