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Gender Gaps in Political Ambition on Different Levels of Policy-Making

By Audrey Vandeleene in collaboration with Robin Devroe, Hilde Coffé and Bram Wauters



ÉDITION
Oxford Academic
 
COLLECTION
Parliamentary Affairs
 


Summary

Women consistently report lower levels of nascent political ambition than men. In this study, we investigate whether these gender differences occur to the same extent across local, national and European levels of policy-making. Using original data collected among a representative sample of young Flemish citizens aged between 18 and 35 (N = 1000), our descriptive results demonstrate a significant gender gap across all levels of policy-making, though the gap is slightly smaller at the local level. Stacked multivariate analyses confirm women’s lower levels of political ambition and show that the gender gap is significantly smaller at the local level compared with the European (but not the national) level, pointing to women’s lower levels of ambition for the European level.
 

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