ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the methodological guidelines for researchers to identify and compares minority women across countries and time. It discusses the problem of using percent women in parliament as the standard measure for women's political inclusion, and some possible solutions. The chapter also addresses these challenges by drawing from data that breaks down national legislatures around the world by both gender and minority status. It outlines the case for intersectionality as an important concern for political inequality scholars. Comparing the effects of different policies regarding the political incorporation of women and minority groups improves our understanding of intersectionality. The importance of intersectional research on political inequality goes beyond explaining variation in the political outcomes of minority women. Even for political inequality researchers who are not particularly interested in the outcomes or impacts of minority women, intersectional research reminds scholars to be wary of aggregation bias.
