Jennifer Piscopo
@jennpiscopo.bsky.social
Professor of Gender and Politics at Royal Holloway University of London; co-editor of @ejpgjournal.bsky.social; failed ballerina and would-be puppy owner.
For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...
Canada ranks 71st for women in politics
Canada ranks 71st in the world for women in parliament. Voters support gender quotas to make politics more representative.
policyoptions.irpp.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...
Publication day! In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, Verónica Pérez-Bentancur, Cecilia Rocha-Carpuic & I use data from Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Guyana & South Africa to propose a new framework for analysing "feminists vs conservative" battles over abortion reform.
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Adoption and Implementation as a Two-Stage Process: Feminist Strategies and Conservative Resistance in the Quest for Legislative Abortion Reform | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Adoption and Implementation as a Two-Stage Process: Feminist Strategies and Conservative Resistance in the Quest for Legislative Abortion Reform
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October 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Publication day! In @poppublicsphere.bsky.social, Verónica Pérez-Bentancur, Cecilia Rocha-Carpuic & I use data from Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Guyana & South Africa to propose a new framework for analysing "feminists vs conservative" battles over abortion reform.
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I understand we want to explain large-scale complacency, but let's be clear: authoritarianism is *not* boring for women, minoritized individuals, immigrants, dissidents & everyone whose existence and rights are actively threatened by the regime. Erasing the harms is part of how complacency wins.
Authoritarianism is boring.
My American friends believe that dictatorships are dramatic with public executions and whatnot. Unlike the movies, dictatorships are unexciting. Life goes on: people get groceries and struggle with bills, as usual.
Losing agency in your own society is mostly boring.
My American friends believe that dictatorships are dramatic with public executions and whatnot. Unlike the movies, dictatorships are unexciting. Life goes on: people get groceries and struggle with bills, as usual.
Losing agency in your own society is mostly boring.
October 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I understand we want to explain large-scale complacency, but let's be clear: authoritarianism is *not* boring for women, minoritized individuals, immigrants, dissidents & everyone whose existence and rights are actively threatened by the regime. Erasing the harms is part of how complacency wins.
The point is not only to make parents, families, and people feel guilty; the *main* point is to make *women* *be* guilty. This whole shebang is deeply tied to the Trump's administration efforts to return women to their 'proper' roles in hearth and home and to police their bodies and their choices.
In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.
Trump admin 'seems to care very little about autistic people,' says advocate
In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The point is not only to make parents, families, and people feel guilty; the *main* point is to make *women* *be* guilty. This whole shebang is deeply tied to the Trump's administration efforts to return women to their 'proper' roles in hearth and home and to police their bodies and their choices.
An amazing thank you @cwolbrecht.bsky.social & @sfranceschet.bsky.social for choosing my article 'Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation' for the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!
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September 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
An amazing thank you @cwolbrecht.bsky.social & @sfranceschet.bsky.social for choosing my article 'Women Leaders and Pandemic Performance: A Spurious Correlation' for the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!
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Happy to be featured in this new video from UN Women discussing barriers to women's political participation-- and for all the women aspirants out there, why 'it's not you, it's them'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLy...
How social norms shape who leads and decides in politics | WYDE | Women’s Leadership Initiative
YouTube video by UN Women
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August 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Happy to be featured in this new video from UN Women discussing barriers to women's political participation-- and for all the women aspirants out there, why 'it's not you, it's them'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLy...
It has been an honor to participate in @msmagazine.com's podcast, Looking Back, Moving Forward, with @carmenriosss.bsky.social. In this episode, we talk about how feminists worldwide have redefined democracy ⤵️
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"feminist activism plays a long game."
i talked to @jennpiscopo.bsky.social for "looking back, moving forward" about what she learned watching "parity in everything” reforms expand in mexico over decades.
read the full interview and tune in @msmagazine.com!
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i talked to @jennpiscopo.bsky.social for "looking back, moving forward" about what she learned watching "parity in everything” reforms expand in mexico over decades.
read the full interview and tune in @msmagazine.com!
msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/j...
'Feminist Activism Plays a Long Game': Jennifer M. Piscopo on the Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from Mexico
The professor and researcher has watched gender quotas transform the political landscape in Mexico over the last two decades. Here's what she thinks feminists in the U.S. can learn from their example....
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July 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It has been an honor to participate in @msmagazine.com's podcast, Looking Back, Moving Forward, with @carmenriosss.bsky.social. In this episode, we talk about how feminists worldwide have redefined democracy ⤵️
msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/j...
msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/j...
I cannot believe I'm in the same podcast as Dolores Huerta and Goveror Maura Healey. Subscribe today for the new @msmagazine.com podcast on feminist futures with @carmenriosss.bsky.social! 🔽
in case you're looking for some hope and inspiration these days...
looking back, moving forward, hosted by yours truly for @msmagazine.com, explores how we can build the feminist future we want — and how feminist history proves that it's possible.
listen + subscribe: msmagazine.com/series/looki...
looking back, moving forward, hosted by yours truly for @msmagazine.com, explores how we can build the feminist future we want — and how feminist history proves that it's possible.
listen + subscribe: msmagazine.com/series/looki...
June 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I cannot believe I'm in the same podcast as Dolores Huerta and Goveror Maura Healey. Subscribe today for the new @msmagazine.com podcast on feminist futures with @carmenriosss.bsky.social! 🔽
It was so lovely to spend the day with smart gender and politics scholars, learning about such new and wonderful work! Thank you so much @ioannagkoutna.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social!
So proud of @ioannagkoutna.bsky.social (one of our great @uclspp.bsky.social PhD candidates) for expertly organizing a wonderful workshop with cherished UK-based colleagues working on gender politics! Appreciate this community and their fantastic contributions (both in general & to this workshop!).
June 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It was so lovely to spend the day with smart gender and politics scholars, learning about such new and wonderful work! Thank you so much @ioannagkoutna.bsky.social & @payoub.bsky.social!
We have a new pathway for gender equality in the US. I am proud to have partnered with the Los Angeles-based Gender Equity Policy Institute to coauthor a new policy brief on taking a gender lens to public policy. thegepi.org/roadmap-equi...
Roadmap for an Equitable Future: Placing a Gender Lens on American Public Policy - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI)
REPORT: Integrating a gender perspective in policymaking is a promising new approach for accelerating women's equality in the United States.
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June 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
We have a new pathway for gender equality in the US. I am proud to have partnered with the Los Angeles-based Gender Equity Policy Institute to coauthor a new policy brief on taking a gender lens to public policy. thegepi.org/roadmap-equi...
I am here at the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague and I am happy to answer questions about the journal!
Off to the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions this week?
Looking for a home for that excellent research paper you're about to workshop?
The EJPG would love to receive it.
Questions? Get in touch with our editors @jennpiscopo.bsky.social @payoub.bsky.social or one of our associated editors.
Looking for a home for that excellent research paper you're about to workshop?
The EJPG would love to receive it.
Questions? Get in touch with our editors @jennpiscopo.bsky.social @payoub.bsky.social or one of our associated editors.
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May 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am here at the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague and I am happy to answer questions about the journal!
It was my pleasure to serve as the opponent for Juan Diego Duque-Salazar's PhD defense at @uupeace.bsky.social on Friday! Felicidades to Juan Diego for a fantastic project on gender and political ambition in contexts of high election insecurity.
May 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It was my pleasure to serve as the opponent for Juan Diego Duque-Salazar's PhD defense at @uupeace.bsky.social on Friday! Felicidades to Juan Diego for a fantastic project on gender and political ambition in contexts of high election insecurity.
I am honored & humbled working w/ Amanda Clayton & @dzobrien.bsky.social. Our latest @apsrjournal.bsky.social shows that gender quotas do *not* erode legitimacy: across democracies, voters prefer legislatures w/ gender balance to those w/ male dominance, full stop.
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Electoral Gender Quotas and Democratic Legitimacy | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Electoral Gender Quotas and Democratic Legitimacy
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May 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I am honored & humbled working w/ Amanda Clayton & @dzobrien.bsky.social. Our latest @apsrjournal.bsky.social shows that gender quotas do *not* erode legitimacy: across democracies, voters prefer legislatures w/ gender balance to those w/ male dominance, full stop.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Two fab presentations by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social and @hannahrphill.bsky.social (and also Leah McCabe on abortion policy) for the Women and Politics group panel on the 2024 elections. Such important work here
April 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Two fab presentations by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social and @hannahrphill.bsky.social (and also Leah McCabe on abortion policy) for the Women and Politics group panel on the 2024 elections. Such important work here
Reposted by Jennifer Piscopo
Everyone is most welcome to join Professor Laura Sjoberg talk about her upcoming book on Tuesday 6th May at 4:30pm and the networking and general get together afterwards - gender@rhul.ac.uk.
April 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Everyone is most welcome to join Professor Laura Sjoberg talk about her upcoming book on Tuesday 6th May at 4:30pm and the networking and general get together afterwards - gender@rhul.ac.uk.
Reposted by Jennifer Piscopo
2025 EGEN Prize Announcement:
We are thrilled to announce the results of the 2025 prize competition. The EGEN prize committee selected 5 Prize Recipients and 3 Honorable Mentions this year!
@tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social @teele.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce the results of the 2025 prize competition. The EGEN prize committee selected 5 Prize Recipients and 3 Honorable Mentions this year!
@tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social @teele.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
2025 EGEN Prize Announcement:
We are thrilled to announce the results of the 2025 prize competition. The EGEN prize committee selected 5 Prize Recipients and 3 Honorable Mentions this year!
@tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social @teele.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce the results of the 2025 prize competition. The EGEN prize committee selected 5 Prize Recipients and 3 Honorable Mentions this year!
@tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social @teele.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
Enjoyed talking with @representwomen.bsky.social today about Claudia Sheinbaum's first 100 days (even though it was a while ago). You'll have to wait for the full interview to hear why I think Sheinbaum's newfound status as 'Trump Whisperer' is absolutely a gender story.
March 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Enjoyed talking with @representwomen.bsky.social today about Claudia Sheinbaum's first 100 days (even though it was a while ago). You'll have to wait for the full interview to hear why I think Sheinbaum's newfound status as 'Trump Whisperer' is absolutely a gender story.
If you read French, I enjoyed talking w/ Marie Billon about women in UK politics for @mediapart.fr. I am quoted on the smaller margin of error for women left and right, and how right-wing women need to over-demonstrate their conservative credentials to be taken seriously by their parties.
Moins nombreuses que les hommes, les femmes de pouvoir sont érigées en modèles, qu’elles le veuillent ou non. Certaines d’entre elles, notamment au Royaume-Uni, sont pourtant des adversaires du féminisme, dénonçant certains droits acquis par les femmes.
Par Marie Billon
Par Marie Billon
Royaume-Uni : des femmes au pouvoir, mais réacs
Moins nombreuses que les hommes, les femmes de pouvoir sont érigées en modèles, qu’elles le veuillent ou non. Certaines d’entre elles, notamment au Royaume-Uni, sont pourtant des adversaires du féminisme, dénonçant certains droits acquis par les femmes.
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March 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If you read French, I enjoyed talking w/ Marie Billon about women in UK politics for @mediapart.fr. I am quoted on the smaller margin of error for women left and right, and how right-wing women need to over-demonstrate their conservative credentials to be taken seriously by their parties.
A very nice visit to Oxford yesterday to present at the Nuffield politics seminar!
March 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
A very nice visit to Oxford yesterday to present at the Nuffield politics seminar!
Ready for two days of working with the National Assembly in Ecuador on making parliament more gender sensitive.
March 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ready for two days of working with the National Assembly in Ecuador on making parliament more gender sensitive.
I'm in Ecuador on behalf of IPU, to lead a gender sensitive parliament exercise for the National Assembly. I take heart in the international and national organizations still committed to realizing women's rights!
March 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I'm in Ecuador on behalf of IPU, to lead a gender sensitive parliament exercise for the National Assembly. I take heart in the international and national organizations still committed to realizing women's rights!
My smile does not match the topic: my spot on Swedish Radio talking about Trump's threats to US univesities. sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...
Genusforskaren: Trumps nerdragningar riskerar ”brain drain” i USA - Vetenskapsradion Nyheter
Trump-administrationens kraftiga neddragningar av forskningsanslag tillsammans med uppmaningar att stoppa satsningar kring mångfald, jämlikhet och inkludering ...
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March 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My smile does not match the topic: my spot on Swedish Radio talking about Trump's threats to US univesities. sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...
So happy to be back in Uppsala for a great book workshop with @elinbja.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social, some lovely dinners with friends, and a stop at Swedish radio to talk about gender research in the era on Trump!
February 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
So happy to be back in Uppsala for a great book workshop with @elinbja.bsky.social & @parzetterberg.bsky.social, some lovely dinners with friends, and a stop at Swedish radio to talk about gender research in the era on Trump!
Thrilled to be in Brussels at the UN Women Expert Group Meeting on social norms and women's political participation. Backlash is real, but I take heart that global efforts around ending gender inequality are not going away.
February 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Thrilled to be in Brussels at the UN Women Expert Group Meeting on social norms and women's political participation. Backlash is real, but I take heart that global efforts around ending gender inequality are not going away.
But her emails. apnews.com/article/dona...
Elon Musk's DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources
The move by DOGE means it could have wide leeway to access important taxpayer data, among other things.
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February 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
But her emails. apnews.com/article/dona...