the illustrations recur : of women and people of colour literally having to jump over more and higher hurdles than white people or men to reach victory in their fields, particularly politics.
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here how the authors put it in their meta-analysis :
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the comprehensive oxford study also cites the work of anthony kevins, of loughborough university , who found across the u.s., britain and canada there is no sign that voters will refrain from marking an x on a ballot for a candidate because of their gender or ethnic background.
after kamala harris' nomination, i talked to a bunch of journalists about our meta-analysis on race/gender in candidate experiments.
— sanne van oosten (@sbvanoosten) july 28, 2024
with the exception of 1 brave journalist, everyone called me off.
i've never been called off by so many journalists. a 🧵on why i think that is.
the university of toronto’s randy besco , author of identities and interests: race, ethnicity and affinity voting, said in an interview that on average racial minority candidates don’t get fewer votes in canada.
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in regard to canadian voting trends around gender, besco pointed to the work of his colleague, semra sevi of l’université de montréal, whose team wrote a paper titled, do women get less votes? no.
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in 2023, about 31 per cent of mps were female , even though women make up half the canadian population. jerome black and andrew griffith also wrote in public policy that mps of colour comprised about 16 per cent of house of commons members in 2021, while visible minorities made up about 20 per cent of all citizens.
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