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The web activities presented here are not exhaustive on the topics. They are meant to help you become more information literate and accustom you to reading scholarship and reports. Please ask your professor for assistance if you don’t understand. Learning is a process. We don’t expect you to become an expert in just one semester. Do always cite your sources when completing these activities.
Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
Using the Interparliamentary Union – Women in Parliaments database: http://archive.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm
a.) Search out which countries in the world have had relatively high indicators of women in power. Indicators of this could include the proportion of women in the national legislature, or a recent female head of government. Select two of these countries from different continents. Conduct research to see what reasons are given for these relatively high levels of women’s involvement. You might find the Gender Quotas Database https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/quotas to be useful. What does this say about the reasons for empowerment given in the chapter?
b.) Using the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC, U. Texas): http://lanic.utexas.edu/subject/government/ Conduct some online research about how race, class, and political empowerment relate in Latin America. Does race relate to politics in Latin America in the same ways that it does in the United States? Does race link to politics in the same ways when we compare one Latin American case to another? What do you take to be the implications of what you find in terms of society-to-society variation in this connection?