Hello, my name is Blanka Nyklova and I am a postgraduate student in Sociology in her first year. My project has been inspired by the huge diffrence perceived between the percentage of the Czech population claiming their support for more women in politics (around 84%)and the actual number of female MPs after last year general election (15,5%). Most politologists ascribe the gap to the way parties create their lists of candidates and to our electoral system. While these factors are definitely very important, I just cannot arrive at accepting them as the sole ones. I intend to combine qualitative and quantitative methods and to include a media analysis as well, the trouble is I am not a sociologist - my degree is from Media Studies and even in that field I feel my knowledge of methodology is bitterly limited. Do you think anyone could recommend a set of methodologies used elsewhere or even a combination of them? I would be deeply obliged to any such person. Thenk you for your response, Yours sincerely
Blanka Nyklova

Hi. I am June Munala, a phd researcher in Holland and studying the use of body politics in nation building process in Rwanda - metamorphically the female body which has for ages been the batleground for incripting wars occurring all over the world. Rwanda is one amazing example of a country that have defied the hypothesis that women usually revert back to their traditional private spaces after war- having the most impresive figures in the world of representation of women in Parliament and other leadership positions. Do you think an analysis that includes interesectional look at the gender, class, ethnicity(or non) and sexuality divide would provide a clearer answer to understanding this phenomenon??