Busola Okedele, Jill Greenlee, and I discuss how children don't imagine women as political leaders in Nigeria and possible solutions for The Conversation: theconversation.com/nigerian-chi... @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social
Nigerian children don’t imagine women as political leaders: what shapes their view
Children absorb the power dynamics and gender roles they observe and this shapes their understanding of who a political leader should be.
theconversation.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Busola Okedele, Jill Greenlee, and I discuss how children don't imagine women as political leaders in Nigeria and possible solutions for The Conversation: theconversation.com/nigerian-chi... @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social
Read Angela Bos et al's fascinating article in the APSR on children's drawings of political leaders in the U.S. and wonder what would happen if a similar study was conducted in another country? Adebusola Okedele, Jill Greenlee and I did so in Nigeria: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YMFRX...
Gendered perceptions of leadership and children’s political ambition: evidence from Nigeria
Scholarship on political representation shows persistent inequality between women and men. Recent work theorizes that children internalize norms of gendered inequality to affect their images of the...
www.tandfonline.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Read Angela Bos et al's fascinating article in the APSR on children's drawings of political leaders in the U.S. and wonder what would happen if a similar study was conducted in another country? Adebusola Okedele, Jill Greenlee and I did so in Nigeria: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YMFRX...