Preface and Acknowledgments
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In april 2004, perhaps because I was at a bit of a loss following a number of very intense months of teaching and research, I decided that the time had come to catch up on the state of knowledge regarding the situation of women in Quebec's spaces of legislative representation.This need to put the cards on the table was reflected in my desire to establish the point I had reached in my own thought concerning this issue, which has been part of my life for twenty years.The pause to mull things over was even more important because there was no reference work on this theme for Quebec, whereas for english Canada, books such as heather MacIvor's Women and Politics in Canada (1996) had been published.Quebec Women and Legislative Representation has a narrower focus than does MacIvor's work; for example, it does not cover the vast area of public policy.starting from the observation that english Canada sometimes develops rather curious analyses of Quebec politics, it sets out to propose a reading more sensitive to the specific context of Quebec and the relationships that Quebec women have with its legislative assemblies.This book would never have seen the light of day without the contributions of many people.First, I would like to thank all the Quebec women involved in provincial and federal politics who, over many years, have agreed to answer my questions, either by allowing me to interview them or by filling out my questionnaires.I know that their time is very valuable, and I am all the more grateful for their generosity.a very special thank-you goes to Mna Louise harel, who agreed, in the autumn of 2004, to write the Preface to the French-language version of this book.For me, it was a great honour.harel embodies the descriptive representation of Quebec women in legislative arenas over time, as she entered the national assembly at a juncture when their presence was as rare as oxygen at high altitude.she is also the Quebec woman who has won the greatest number of elections and accumulated the most years sitting in one of the three forums of the province's legislative representation.What is more, she has spoken and acted many times regarding policy to improve the collective
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.021 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.269 | 0.145 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".