Women and citizenship. Is there a civic 'gender gap' in Romania?
Women and citizenship. Is there a civic 'gender gap' in Romania?

Summary/Abstract: An extensive body of research documents the differences in participation and political involvement between men and women in both old and new democracies. This paper advances an exploratory analysis of political participation in Romania, asking whether men and women approach differently their public engagement as citizens. In the case of Romania, survey data show that women are somewhat less participatory than men and that their involvement is notably lower in collective forms of actions. Also, women are less involved than men in political parties and have a lower interest in politics. However, women and men are very similar in how they assess the attributes of a good citizen and in how they evaluate the effectiveness of specific forms of political action.

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