Foreword – Women, Power, Politics: Surveying the Canadian Landscape / Sylvia Bashevkin

Introduction: The Road to Gender Parity / Manon Tremblay, Jane Arscott, and Linda Trimble

1 Truly More Accessible to Women than the Legislature? Women in Municipal Politics / Manon Tremblay and Anne Mévellec

2 The Alberta Advantage? Women in Alberta Politics / Brenda O’Neill

3 When Numerical Gains Are Not Enough: Women in British Columbia Politics / Jocelyne Praud

4 Complacency and Gender Silence: Women in Manitoba Politics / Shannon Sampert

5 A Province at the Back of the Pack: Women in New Brunswick Politics / Joanna Everitt

6 A Laggard No More? Women in Newfoundland and Labrador Politics / Amanda Bittner and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant

7 Electoral Breakthrough: Women in Nova Scotia Politics / Louise Carbert and Naomi Black

8 Breaking the Holding Pattern? Women in Ontario Politics / Tracey Raney

9 Getting Women’s Names on the Ballot: Women in Prince  Edward Island Politics / John Crossley

10 Hitting a Glass Ceiling? Women in Quebec Politics / Manon Tremblay

11 A Prairie Plateau: Women in Saskatchewan Politics / Loleen Berdahl

12 In the Presence of Northern Aboriginal Women? Women in Territorial Politics / Graham White

13 Slow to Change: Women in the House of Commons / Lisa Young

14 “Way Past That Era Now?” Women in the Canadian Senate / Stephanie Mullen, with the collaboration of Manon Tremblay and Linda Trimble

Conclusion: A Few More Women / Linda Trimble, Manon Tremblay, and Jane Arscott

Index