Jeanette Ashe
Born
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Educator, author
SpouseKennedy Stewart
Academic background
Alma mater

Jeanette Ashe is a Canadian political scientist, educator, and author.

Early life and education

Ashe was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] Before earning her Bachelor of Arts and master's degrees in political science at Simon Fraser University, she worked at a Safeway in Coquitlam and was a shop steward with the United Food and Commercial Workers union.[2]

Ashe's Master of Arts thesis is titled The electoral frontier: women's representation in British Columbia's legislature.[3] She completed her PhD in political science from Birkbeck, University of London in 2016, where she conducted her research on party candidate selection processes under the supervision of Joni Lovenduski and Rosie Campbell.[4]

Career

In 2005, after completing her master's, Ashe became a faculty member in the department of political science at Douglas College.

Ashe served as the chair of the political science department at Douglas College from 2016 to 2022. She is currently the visiting senior research fellow at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London.[4]

Ashe is active in party politics. She advised the BC NDP on implementing gender quotas and chaired the party's gender and women's rights committee.[5] In April 2022, Ashe ran as the BC NDP candidate in the Vancouver-Quilchena provincial by-election prompted by the resignation of former BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson.[6] She faced new BC Liberal leader Kevin Falcon and was endorsed by the Vancouver & District Labour Council.[7]

Later in 2022, Ashe ran for Vancouver City Council under the Forward Together banner.[8] She was endorsed by former NDP MPs Libby Davies and Olivia Chow, and current NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.[9]

Research

Ashe's research focuses on Canadian and British politics, political recruitment, political parties, representation, and gender and politics. She authored the book Political Candidate Selection: Who wins, Who Loses and Under-representation in the UK,[10] and other recent publications include:[11]

  • The Implementation of Equality-Based Candidate Selection Decisions in the British Labour and Conservative Parties
  • Canada’s Political Parties: Gatekeepers to Parliament
  • Gender Sensitivity Under Trudeau: Facebook Feminism or Real Change?

Ashe's research on gender and diversity sensitive parliaments includes the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s Gender Sensitising Parliament: A Seven-Step Field Guide,[12] Gender Sensitising Parliaments: A Cross-Jurisdictional Review of Canada,[11] and Assessing Gender and Diversity Sensitivity at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.[13]

Ashe's research is published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, British Politics, and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.[4] She provided expert testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women's study, Barriers Facing Women in Parliament.[14]

Personal life

Ashe lives in Vancouver with her husband, former NDP MP and Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart.

Electoral history

British Columbia provincial by-election, April 30, 2022: Vancouver-Quilchena
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
LiberalKevin Falcon6,20058.61+2.57
New DemocraticJeanette Ashe2,59024.48–4.08
GreenWendy Hayko1,0259.69–5.71
ConservativeDallas Brodie6986.60–
LibertarianSandra Filosof-Schipper660.62–
Total valid votes 10,57999.95–
Total rejected ballots 50.05–0.46
Turnout 10,58427.56–27.56
Registered voters 38,399
Liberal hold Swing +3.33
Source: Elections BC[15]

References

  1. ↑ "New B.C. Liberal leader to run in Vancouver–Quilchena byelection". CBC News.
  2. ↑ "UFCW 1518 Update Fall 2018". United Food and Commercial Workers.
  3. ↑ Canada, Library and Archives (2022-09-01). "Item – Theses Canada". library-archives.canada.ca. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  4. 1 2 3 "Visiting Faculty | Global Institute for Women's Leadership | King's College London". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  5. ↑ "Congrats to new Women's Rights Committee chair Jeanette Ashe". X (formerly Twitter). BC NDP. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Vancouver mayor's wife running for BC NDP in by-election against Kevin Falcon | News". dailyhive.com. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  7. ↑ "Vote Jeanette Ashe for Vancouver-Quilchena! – Vancouver and District Labour Council". vdlc.ca. 2022-04-12. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  8. ↑ "Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart's wife joins council race". Vancouver Is Awesome. 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  9. ↑ "Jeanette Ashe | Candidate for City Council". Forward Together Vancouver. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  10. ↑ Ashe, Jeanette (2019). Political Candidate Selection (1st ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781315175805.
  11. 1 2 Ashe, Jeanette (2022). Gender Sensitizing Parliaments: A Cross-jurisdictional Review of Canada (PDF). Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians-Canadian Region.
  12. ↑ "CWP Gender-Sensitising Parliaments". www.cpahq.org. 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  13. ↑ Ashe, Jeanette (2020). Assessing Gender and Diversity Sensitivity at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (PDF).
  14. ↑ "Notice of Meeting - FEWO (42-1) - No. 108 - House of Commons of Canada". www.ourcommons.ca. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  15. ↑ "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer: 2022 Vancouver-Quilchena and Surrey South By-elections" (PDF). Elections BC. December 20, 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
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