Replication Data for: Beyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions

Women remain under-represented in political institutions. To what extent does under-representation of women impact their performance, and the amount influence they have within political institutions? I argue that women have a harder time getting (s)elected because of gender-based selection bias and that those women who are (s)elected perform, on average, better than their male counterparts. Yet, women have less influence because gender-based selection bias may also exist within the institutions to which women have been (s)elected to serve. I empirically assess my arguments in the context of the Court of Justice of the European Union. I find that women perform on average better than their male counterparts. Despite this, my results also reveal that female judges are the assigned judicial "housework," while male judges handle groundbreaking cases, resulting in a gender gap in influence. This suggests that even after breaking the glass ceiling, gender-based selection bias continues to undermine women.

女性在政治机构中仍存在代表性不足的问题。女性代表性不足会在多大程度上影响其履职表现，以及其在政治机构中所拥有的影响力大小？本文认为，由于基于性别的选拔偏见（gender-based selection bias），女性更难获得当选机会；而即便成功当选，平均而言女性的履职表现也优于男性同僚。然而，女性的话语权却相对更低——这是因为在女性当选后任职的政治机构内部，同样可能存在基于性别的选拔偏见。本文以欧洲法院（Court of Justice of the European Union）为研究场景，对上述论点开展实证检验。研究结果显示，女性法官的平均履职表现优于男性同僚。尽管如此，研究结果同时表明，女性法官往往被指派承担常规司法杂务，而男性法官则负责开创性案件，由此造成了影响力层面的性别差距。这表明，即便女性打破了职场玻璃天花板，基于性别的选拔偏见仍会持续对其造成损害。