{"id":38381,"date":"2024-07-16T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?p=38381"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:35:55","slug":"erin-tolley-guest-on-podcast-myth-women-dont-make-good-political-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/2024\/erin-tolley-guest-on-podcast-myth-women-dont-make-good-political-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Tolley guest on podcast &#8220;Myth: Women don&#8217;t make good political leaders&#8221;"},"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                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Erin Tolley was a guest on the recent podcast episode &#8220;Myth: Women don&#8217;t make good political leaders,&#8221;&nbsp; where she talked about her research which counters this myth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Episode Details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In Canada, only 30% of Members of Parliament are women, and only 16% belong to a racial minority group, well below their 26% representation in the overall Canadian population. On the other hand, white men are over-represented in political leadership, and that\u2019s not only the case in Canada, but in many other countries as well. People may \u2013 consciously or subconsciously \u2013 think that that\u2019s because women, racialized folks, and members of other underrepresented groups just don\u2019t make good political leaders. But the reality is that there are a lot of factors contributing to the political underrepresentation we see today. In this episode, we\u2019re going to be busting the myth that women and members of other underrepresented groups just aren\u2019t suited to political leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.transistor.fm\/s\/1f8d8d63\">Listen to episode<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/erin-tolley\/\">view Erin Tolley&#8217;s bio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Tolley was a guest on the recent podcast episode &#8220;Myth: Women don&#8217;t make good political leaders,&#8221;&nbsp; where she talked about her research which counters this myth. Episode Details: &#8220;In Canada, only 30% of Members of Parliament are women, and only 16% belong to a racial minority group, well below their 26% representation in the [&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-38381","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\/38381","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=38381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38382,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381\/revisions\/38382"}],"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=38381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}