Select Bibliography: Women in Politics

Primary Sources:

Statistics Canada. "Hours Spent Doing Unpaid Housework by Age Group and Sex, Newfoundland and Labrador." 2006 Census. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2006. Print.

Secondary Sources:

Arscott, Jane. "Between the Rock and a Hard Place: Women Legislators in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia." In the Presence of Women: Representation in Canadian Governments. Ed. Jane Arscott and Linda Trimble. Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1997. Print.

Alexander, David. "Newfoundland's Traditional Economy and Development to 1934." Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Essays in Interpretation. Ed. James Hiller and Peter Neary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. 17-39. Print.

Bittner, Amanda and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant. "Women in Newfoundland and Labrador Politics." Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, May 16-18, 2011. Print.

DuChene, Danielle. "Where are the Women? Unequal Representation in Municipal Government in Newfoundland and Labrador." MA thesis, Memorial University, 2008. Typescript.

Harris, Jack. "Papers Relating to a Presentation Entitled 'Gender Balance in Politics'." NTA Gender Equity Forum, Mar. 8-10, 1992. Typescript.

Heard, Andrew. "Women and Elections." Elections. Simon Fraser University. 2011. Web. 8 Mar. 2012.

---. "Women Candidates Canadian Federal Elections, 1921-2011." Elections. Simon Fraser University. 2011. Web. 8 Mar. 2012.

Lang, Raylene A. "Making Waves: Women in Newfoundland Politics." MA thesis, Memorial University, 2005. Typescript.

Let's Teach About Women: The Women's Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1970 to 1989. N.p., 2005. Web. 8 Mar. 2012.

Moncrief, Gary F. and Joel A. Thompson. "Urban and Rural Ridings and Women in Provincial Politics in Canada: A Research Note on Female MLAs." Canadian Journal of Political Science 24.4 (1991): 831-837. Print.

Muzychka, Martha. "Brief to the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing." St. John's: Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1990. Print.

Pope, Sharon Gray and Jane Burnham. "The Modern Women's Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador." Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador. Ed. Linda Kealey. St. John's: ISER, 1993. 163-221. Print.

Thompson, Emily C. "Electoral Institutions and Women's Representation: The Impact of Electoral Systems and Party Nomination Practices in Newfoundland and Labrador and Tasmania." BA (Honours) dissertation, Memorial University, 2011. Typescript.

Trimble, Linda J, and Jane Arscott. Still Counting: Women in Politics Across Canada. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003. Print.

"Verge, Vera Lynn." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

"Women's Movement." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.