Lift Her Up: Power and Control Wheel for

We also thank the members of the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters, our Board of Directors, our staff, and contracted researchers who contributed to the #LiftHerUp campaign, research about women’s experiences in politics, and the development of the Power and Control Wheel for women in politics. [...] Restricting the participation of women as women in these ways is meant to send a broader and unambiguous message that women as a group should have no part in political life.11 The targeting of women as women in the political sphere is analogous to the domestic sphere. [...] ACWS is driven by the belief that the issues of violence and abuse are the responsibilities of the entire community including, legal, social and political structures, and in seeing violence against women in politics manifest explicitly in Alberta, we felt compelled to act to further our vision of a world free from violence and abuse. [...] With the threat of violence ever-present and growing for women in politics, the subtle and overt tactics employed to silence women’s voices at decision-making tables and to discourage their participation in the political system take on additional meaning for survivors, as they unify the behaviours of those threatening violence and propagate patriarchal stereotypes of gender roles and power. [...] In alignment with research ethics principles and to support the safety of participants, the identities, political parties, and positions held by participants in the study are confidential.21 21 See Appendix A, B 14 Lift Her Up: Power and Control Wheel for Women in Political Office Figure 5: Participants Diversity of experience and background of participants was key to ensuring the validity of the.