When the analytical lens of intersectionality was first applied to descriptive representation, it documented the increased level of disadvantage for those belonging to more than one underrepresented group. Although ethnic minority women have been slow to benefit from drives to boost ethnic minority or women’s representation, increasingly, political parties seeking to diversify see them as “ticking two boxes,” resulting in a new positive story of relative representational success in many countries and legislatures. However, we argue that the two narratives coexist: intersectional group membership mars the experience of ethnic minority women politicians despite their increased electoral success. Conceptualizing intersectional disadvantage beyond examining differential outcomes, we focus instead on how the mechanisms leading to those outcomes are experienced by ethnic minority women local councillors, from their selection to their working conditions and extra representative burdens. Using 85 interviews with ethnic minority women and men UK local councillors, we demonstrate how gender and racial inequalities leave ethnic minority women fighting two (or more) battles.

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勾选两个方框，打两场战役：英国地方政府少数族裔女议员的交叉经历

当交叉性分析镜头首次应用于描述性表征时，它记录了属于多个代表性不足群体的人的不利程度不断增加。尽管少数族裔妇女从提高少数族裔或妇女代表权的努力中获益缓慢，但越来越多寻求多元化的政党将她们视为“勾选两个框”，从而在许多国家和立法机构中创造了相对代表性成功的新积极故事。然而，我们认为这两种说法并存：尽管少数族裔女性政治家在选举中取得了更大的成功，但交叉群体成员身份却损害了她们的经历。除了研究不同的结果之外，我们还将交叉劣势概念化，转而关注少数民族女性地方议员如何经历导致这些结果的机制，从她们的选择到工作条件和额外的代表负担。通过对英国地方议员中少数族裔女性和男性的 85 次采访，我们展示了性别和种族不平等如何导致少数族裔女性陷入两场（或更多场）战斗。