Wilma Rule Award: IPSA Award for the Best Paper on Gender and Politics

The Wilma Rule Award for the best paper on gender and politics was initiated in 2000. The award covers the cost of participation in the next world congress in 2003.

The purpose of the award is to encourage scholars to write and present excellent papers at the IPSA World Congress. The subject matter of the paper should include aspects relating to issues of women’s participation and representation in politics and society, especially the identification of entry barriers to decision making arenas that might help further their achievement of higher positions. Any scholar, male or female, who has prepared a written, original paper for the congress, with the intention of presenting it personally, may be recommended for the award by the convenor or chair of his or her panel.

Chairs and convenors of sessions at the IPSA World Congress are invited to submit nominations of papers prepared for presentation at the world congress for consideration for the Wilma Rule Award for the best paper on gender and politics. Each nomination should be accompanied by (1) a copy of the paper, and (2) a letter of recommendation from the nominating chair or convenor. Each paper nominated will be assessed by a panel drawn from IPSA’s committee on awards and its committee on participation.

Nominations should be received by the IPSA secretariat by June 26th, 2009.

Recipient in 2006 was:
- Manon Tremblay, Université d’Ottawa (Canada).
Article: Democracy, Representation, and Women: A Worldwide Comparative Analysis

Recipients for 2000 were:
- Karen Bird , McMaster University(Canada).
Paper: Gender Parity and the Political Representation of Women in France.
- Marian Sawer, Australian National University (Australia).
Paper: Representation of Women: Questions of Accountability.