1. I would like to thank Clare Midgley and the two anonymous reviewers for their editorial comments. I would also like to thank Joni Lovenduski for her comments on an earlier draft of this article and to participants at the Colloque Du CESCIB, Université Paris VIII, 20-21 November 1998
2. The Inter Parliamentary Union StudyThe Glass TrapdoorStephenson Press 1995 32
3. Ibid.