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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 the contexts in which they are embedded.
Mensi-Klarbach, Heike +1 more
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Incumbents' Interests and Gender Quotas
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 The introduction of mandatory gender quotas in party lists is a reform that many countries have recently adopted or have been considering. The electoral system affects the incumbents' incentives to make such reforms, their details, and their effectiveness.
Fréchette, Guillaume R. +2 more
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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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European Political Science, 2004 Introducing gender quotas in politics is often a difficult endeavour: quotas tend to trigger controversial debates between those who find them a necessary, just and legitimate measure to redress women's under-representation, and those who think that they are arbitrary, discriminatory, contrary to the free will of the voter or an obstacle to national ...
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European Journal of Volunteering and Community-Based Projects, 2022 The number of women in the boards of directors has increased in a lot in international firms, in recent years, with the help of the gender quotas, but we do not know whether this fact leads to an increase in gender equality. Based on a literature review
Stefano de Nichilo
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Gender Quotas, Context, and Substantive Representation: a Literature Review
DesafíosThis paper provides a comprehensive review of the link between descriptive and substantive representation, as well as the challenges associated with the context in which gender quotas exist.
Muhammad Sabeel Khan
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Forwards-Backwards: Internal Party Democracy in Irish Political Parties
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 All political parties want candidates that will win elections but electability is an elusive trait and how it is understood, and pursued varies greatly. Political parties have formal rules, and informal practices and preferences, for selecting candidates
Theresa Reidy
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UNDERREPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF ELECTORAL GENDER QUOTAS
Pravni VjesnikThe article studies the legal issue of women’s political (under)representation in the Croatian Parliament from the independence of the Republic of Croatia to the present day, with a special focus on the ineffectiveness of electoral gender quotas as ...
Mira Lulić, Sanda Pašuld
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Gender Quotas for Political Participation and the Case of Georgia
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2022 The current study focuses on the key elements limiting the political representation of women in the modern world. In order to eliminate discrimination, some countries introduce gender quotas for political participation.
Irina S. Amiantova, Nikoloz Bitsadze
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Ekonomi, Politika & Finans Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Historically and traditionally women experience rights violations more widely and this caused them to practice an indirect citizenship form. Hence, a gendered perception has emerged to understand civil, political and economic rights of women apart from ...
Elif Gözler Çamur
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