{"id":37511,"date":"2024-01-25T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=37511"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:55","slug":"why-canadian-politics-is-still-unsafe-for-female-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2024\/why-canadian-politics-is-still-unsafe-for-female-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Canadian Politics Is Still Unsafe For Female Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Why Canadian Politics Is Still Unsafe For Female Politicians\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhile it\u2019s true that any woman in the spotlight is a mark for online hate, nobody is more public than politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Black, Indigenous and other racialized women, that abuse will often hone in on race in addition to their gender. \u201cIf you\u2019re a woman\u2026experiencing negativity on social media, that negativity by far and away targets your social identity, in a way that\u2019s not the case for white men,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/erin-tolley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erin Tolley<\/a>, Canada Research Chair in Gender, Race, and Inclusive Politics and Associate Professor at Carleton University. \u201cIt\u2019s not just general negativity about not liking their political position, it\u2019s not liking them because they are women or because they are racialized women.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chatelaine.com\/longforms\/female-politicians-canada-safety\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile it\u2019s true that any woman in the spotlight is a mark for online hate, nobody is more public than politicians.\u201d For Black, Indigenous and other racialized women, that abuse will often hone in on race in addition to their gender. \u201cIf you\u2019re a woman\u2026experiencing negativity on social media, that negativity by far and away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37512,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions\/37512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}