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Melanee Thomas
@MelaneeLThomas
Professor, Political Science, @ucalgary | gender, behaviour, energy transition, #cdnpoli | settler | farm kid | lazy runner | She/her/they. Expect typos
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Sep 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
When "can't explain" effectively = "aren't persuaded by" the problem isn't the audience.

It certainly is interesting, though, when the audience is identified as the problem. Folk sure do tell on themselves. #cdnpoli #sexism PS: as much as folks might want them to be a group, "suburban soccer moms" aren't a unique set of voters.

Women, by contrast, do systematically support the CPC a LOT less than do men. There are few reasons why: women are less likely to be socially conservative,
Jul 7, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
When I was 17, my mother sat my brother and I down and asked us to promise we'd never go into a health care profession.

Why? She was an RN during the Klein cuts and didn't want us on the front line when that space was unnecessarily politicized again.

#abpoli #ableg 🧵 At the time, I agreed, b/c I didn't really like physics that much, though my bio and them grades were great.

Once I decided I didn't want to go to law school (OG plan #1), I seriously considered switching to nursing or medicine. But I made that promise and so stayed in POLI
Jul 7, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I might be the odd one out here, but being a politician is a hard job. The schedule sucks, everyone likes to yell at you, and the commute can be horrendous. It's hard.

NOT UNLIKE BEING A NURSE.

Compensate everyone fairly. Look elsewhere to economize the budget #abpoli #ableg The Sturgeon Refinery, Keystone XL, orphan wells, oil by rail -- these are all places where the liability to Alberta's public finances are STAGGERING.

The problem here = stupid, foolish gambles on an industry that is transitioning out of dominance, not public sector wages
May 31, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
🚨new article🚨from @jordanmansell4, @allisonrharell, me, and Tania Gosselin.

This is ANOTHER piece where I try and fail to explain women's levels of subjective self-evals like interest, efficacy, and ambition. But we find some other neat things!

link.springer.com/article/10.100… Here, we're interested in the political consequences of losing at competition. We build on the idea that women are more competition-averse than men b/c women are, on average, more aware that, if you compete, you might do poorly or lose