8 Breaking the Holding Pattern?

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Truly More Accessible to Women than the Legislature? 19
8. The Alberta Advantage? 36
9. When Numerical Gains Are Not Enough 55
10. Complacency and Gender Silence 75
11. A Province at the Back of the Pack 93
12. A Laggard No More? 115
13. Electoral Breakthrough 135
14. Breaking the Holding Pattern? 154
15. Getting Women’s Names on the Ballot 173
16. Hitting a Glass Ceiling? 192
17. A Prairie Plateau 214
18. In the Presence of Northern Aboriginal Women? 233
19. Slow to Change 253
20. “Way Past That Era Now?” 273
21. Conclusion 290
22. Contributors 315
23. Index 319