Still Counting: Women in Politics across Canada

Still Counting is a state-of-the-art examination of women's involvement in Canadian politics. Linda Trimble and Jane Arscott have written a lively and accessible book that shows how much progress Canadian women have made, and how great a distance we still have to go. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone with an interest in contemporary Canadian politics.

Lisa Young, University of Calgary

Let me say what a fabulous book it is! The usefulness of the book can be summed up in the reason the authors give for writing it: women have not achieved parity in public office, that lack of parity is important to document, but very little work has been done to document it. This book goes a long way to fill that gap. Written in very accessible language, it will be useful for both introductory and upper level undergraduate classes in political science.

Linda White, University of Toronto

Linda Trimble and Jane Arscott have delivered a very readable, empirically sound and theoretically informed account of women's participation in electoral politics. This text will convince many readers that Canada is, indeed, suffering a self-inflicted democratic deficit by drawing its elite politicians from a predominantly male pool. This is a deficit that can be remedied. The authors note that Canada's masculinist political culture also needs renovation if more women are to be recruited into partisan politics, and if successful female politicians are not to be isolated and alienated by social and structural exclusions in the corridors of power.

Joyce Green, University of Regina