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Political meetings and platform speeches are an important and exciting aspect of the Anglophone Caribbean's political culture. They provide politicians with direct contact to voters and an opportunity to articulate important national as well as local issues. In this by-election, different political meetings were organised by the two established political parties, the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). This meeting by the BLP provoked a backlash from within the party and outside the party because of the 'all female cast'. This is instructive and speaks to the male-dominated political culture as well as persistent gender stereotyping of politics as a man's activity. This despite Mia Mottley becoming the first female to hold the position of Prime Minister in 2018. The optics of female leadership seems encouraging, but society is still very patriarchal, and the political landscape is far from being gender balanced. Representation is at the core of democracy and has evolved over time to include different groups. Historically, the design of democracy and representation excluded women. There have been very few if any spaces for association for women politic

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Author

Sandra Ochieng’-Springer

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences