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Gender Quotas for Legislatures and Corporate Boards. [PDF]
Annu Rev Sociol, 2017 The global proliferation of quotas for women over the past 30 years is both remarkable and consequential. Targeting decision-making positions historically resistant to women's equal inclusion, the adoption of electoral and corporate board quotas has at ...
Hughes MM, Paxton P, Krook ML.
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Implementing gender quotas in Portugal: A success story? [PDF]
, 2023 The so-called Portuguese Parity Law adopted in 2006 determined that candidate lists presented for national, European and local elections must include one third minimum representation of each sex.
Santos, M. H. +2 more
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Ireland: Understanding gender quotas as a stepping-stone to gender transformation and empowerment
, 2022 Ostensibly, gender quotas have had a transformative effect on women’s political candidacy and election in Ireland. Since the inaugural “gender quota election” of 2016, the number of women candidates contesting general elections has increased by 90% while
Brennan, Mary +2 more
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Gender quotas in Indonesia: Re-examining the role of international NGOs
Ex Aequo: Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres, 2019 Women’s political representation in Indonesia has been rather limited and has fluctuated since independence in 1945. In a hope to improve this situation, a legislated gender quota of 30 percent for candidates in Indonesia was first implemented in the ...
Ella Syafputri Prihatini +1 more
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Desafíos, 2019 Gendered quotas have been one of the preferred instruments for promoting women’s participation and empowerment in public decision-making positions. This study analyzes Colombia’s constitutional validation of gender quotas.
Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz
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Quotas and Gender Competence: Independent or Complementary Approaches to Gender Equality?
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Austrian gender equality policy in higher education is characterized by the successful implementation of a comprehensive set of gender equality policies and persistent gender imbalances.
Angela Wroblewski
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Affirmative action programs and network benefits in the number of board positions.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Whereas governments are increasingly considering affirmative action programs to increase corporate board diversity, the effect of such programs can be superficial as they do not address the underlying problem, which is women's access to and inclusion in ...
Katarzyna Burzynska, Gabriela Contreras
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Do Gender Quotas Influence Women's Representation and Policies? [PDF]
The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010 This paper investigates the effect of applying gender quotas on policy decisions. I first examine the effect of gender quotas on the representation of female legislators, study the correlation between gender quotas and different types of government ...
Li-Ju Chen
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The Irish legislative gender quota: The first election
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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Quotas for men: Reframing gender quotas as a means of improving representation for all
, 2014 Gender quotas traditionally focus on the underrepresentation of women. Conceiving of quotas in this way perpetuates the status of men as the norm and women as the other.
RAINBOW MURRAY, Murray, R
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