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The question we are asking in this chapter is: does class background differentiate men and women in positions of public power, and if so how? Our hypothesis is that women leaders come from higher class backgrounds than male leaders, and the evidence suggests that, in most of the dimensions of class examined, there is a significant relationship between gender and class in the direction proposed.
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Liddle, J., Michielsens, E. (2000). Gender, Class and Public Power. In: Vianello, M., Moore, G. (eds) Gendering Elites. Advances in Political Science: An International Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62882-7_3
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