Abstract: Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent years, but in many parts of the world, their increased engagement has spurred attacks, intimidation, and harassment. In her recent book, Violence against Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020), Krook argues that violence against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of existing definition of political violence but, rather, a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors. This talk traces how political women around the world came to name their experiences "violence against women in politics," illustrates what this problem looks like in practice, and catalogues emerging solutions, with a particular focus on the challenges posed by violence against women in politics to democracy around the globe.
Date : Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Time : 9AM WIB Jakarta Time or 9PM ET (Monday, 28 November 2022)
Short Bio: Mona Lena Krook is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women and Politics Ph.D. Program at Rutgers University. Shas published widely on gender and political representation, particularly on electoral gender quotas and the impact of women in public office, including the award-winning Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2009). She is currently the lead editor of Politics & Gender, the official journal of the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent book, Violence against Women in Politics, published by Oxford University in 2020, was researched with the support of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Written for scholars and practitioners, it won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, given to “those who have taken on issues of world importance and presented viewpoints that could lead to a more just and peaceful world”. Since 2015, Krook has collaborated with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) on the #NotTheCost campaign to stop violence against women in politics, which over the last five years has informed NDI’s global programming, contributed to debates at the United Nations, and inspired efforts in the U.S. Congress to address this problem.
