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Personalism or party platform? Gender quotas and women's representation under different electoral system orientations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Underrepresentation of women in politics is a matter of great concern to social scientists, citizens, and policymakers alike. Despite effort over the past decade to ameliorate it with gender quotas of different types, scientific research provides a mixed
Aliza Forman-Rabinovici, Lilach Nir
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Socially Gainful Gender Quotas [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014 We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific ...
Hyll, Walter, Stark, Oded
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The Irish legislative gender quota: The first election [PDF]
Administration, 2017 In 2012 legislative gender quotas were introduced as part of the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government’s political reform agenda. The legislation specifies that payments to political parties ‘shall be reduced by 50 per cent, unless at least 30 per cent ...
Brennan Mary, Buckley Fiona
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Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards: Similarities and Differences in Quota Scenarios [PDF]
European Management Review, 2020 In this article, the use of gender quotas to strengthen gender equality on corporate boards is explored. Examining national practices in ten European countries we provide an overview, categorizing the design of various corporate board quotas (CBQs) and
Mensi-Klarbach, Heike +1 more
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Gender Quotas and Women's Political Leadership [PDF]
American Political Science Review, 2014 Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women's political leadership remain largely unknown. We exploit a quasi-experiment - a zipper quota imposed by the Swedish Social Democratic national party on ...
O'Brien, Diana Z., Rickne, Johanna
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Gender quotas on boards of directors [PDF]
IZA World of Labor, 2014 Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed and often negative.
Smith, Nina
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Women's Descriptive Representation in Burundi: The Mixed Effects of Gender Quotas
Africa Spectrum, 2023 Building on original data collected for the period between 2001 and 2020, this article contributes to the research on the effectiveness of gender quotas.
Réginas Ndayiragije +2 more
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Women Just Wanna Have Quotas: The Gender Divide on Affirmative Action in the Chilean Right
Colombia Internacional, 2023 Objective/context: This article examines attitudes towards gender quotas by right-wing leadership in Chile and assesses gender gaps in supporting affirmative action.
Julieta Suárez-Cao
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Honour and Shame in Women’s Sports
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2021 This piece, first delivered as a keynote address, examines the role of honour and shame in understanding the many stories of women's involvement in sport in Ireland from the eighteenth century onwards, and especially in the modern era.
Katie Liston
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Does Gender Based Representation Matters in Fostering Political Inclusion of Women in Local Governments? A Case of India [PDF]
SocioEconomic Challenges, 2023 How does the legally established gender quota in local self-government bodies affect the level of representation of women in power? How does the representation of women in power increase effective political participation? Previous studies were devoted to
Bishnu Prasad Mohapatra +2 more
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