Erikson, JosefinaVerge Mestre, Tània2023-05-152023-05-152022Erikson J, Verge T. Gender, power and privilege in the parliamentary workplace. Parliam Aff. 2022;75(1):1-19. DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsaa0480031-2290http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56811This introduction to the Special Section ‘Parliaments as workplaces: gendered approaches to the study of legislatures’ makes the case for revisiting the conditions under which male and female Members of Parliament (MPs) and staff carry out their parliamentary duties, thereby furthering the understanding of parliaments’ inner workings. It shows that adopting a workplace perspective grounded on feminist institutionalist analyses and gender organisational studies opens up new avenues for studying parliaments and the outcomes of political representation. The article then outlines how contributors to this Special Section deal with various aspects of the parliamentary workplace and concludes by highlighting the wider implications of this perspective for examining crucial questions of the parliamentary studies research agenda.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaa048Feminist InstitutionalismGenderInformal RulesParliamentsPowerWorkplace perspectiveinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess