Leslie Cornell/ Research Log #2

I wanted to gather more statistical research to get a better understanding of my my topic so I focused my research gathering this time on some more statistical resources to supplement the literature I gathered earlier in the semester.

Search Date: 12/6/09
Search Tool: Givoogle
Search Term: Women in Parliament
Source 1:
Parliamentary Democracy - Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). (n.d.). Parliamentary Democracy - Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Retrieved December 6, 2009, from http://www.ipu.org/english/home.htm
This site is a great database for information about national parliaments and parliamentary democracy. It provide me with great info and an article relating to the percentages of women in leadership and in legislative positions in the European Union as a whole and for each country within the European Union.

Search Date: 12/6/09
Search Tool: Library Database
Search Term: Women in Parliament
Source 2:
Wangnerud, L. (2009). Women in Parliaments: Descriptive and Substantive Representation. Annual Review of Political Science, 51(69), 51-69.
This is a fantastic source for some information especially pertaining to Sweden and a world look at gender equality in Parliaments. The fact that it does focus on every country and not specifically just the European Union, it isn't the very best source that I have found but it does summarize and translate a great deal of data that it compelling for my topic.


Search Date: 12/7/09
Search Tool: Europa
Search Term: Gender Gap, Pay Equity
Source 3:
The situation in the EU - Gender Pay Equity. (n.d.). EUROPA - European Commission. Retrieved December 7, 2009, from http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=685&langId=en
This site gives the pay gap currently existing for each Member State. There seems to be that there are considerable differences between the Member States in this regard, with the pay gap ranging from less than 10% in Italy, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Belgium to more than 20% in Slovakia, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Germany, United Kingdom and Greece and more than 25% in Estonia and Austria. This will help me clarify the implications of of my discussion of Article 119 in my research.