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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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Money matters: The impact of gender quotas on campaign spending for women candidates
International Political Science Review, 2021 Despite concerns that women candidates are hampered by gender gaps in campaign financing, few scholars have examined how gender quotas impact women candidates’ access to campaign funds.
Fiona Buckley, Mack D. Mariani
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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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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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From breaking the rule to making the rules : the adoption, entrenchment and diffusion of gender quotas in France [PDF]
, 2016 Once a country allergic to any type of preferential treatment or quota measure for women, France has become a country that applies gender quotas to regulate women's presence and representation in politics, the business sector, public bodies, public ...
Lépinard, E.
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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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Who supports gender quotas in Ireland? [PDF]
Irish Political Studies, 2016 ABSTRACTCandidate gender quotas were passed into law in the Republic of Ireland in 2012. This paper examines support for this quota amongst three different groups: local election candidates, a sample of professionals and the general public. Using responses from three different datasets, we identify the key ideological, partisan and demographic ...
Lisa Keenan, Gail McElroy
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Africa, 2022 In 2010, Kenya introduced a gender quota to boost women’s political representation. The quota mandated that a single gender should not hold more than two-thirds of elective and appointive positions in public bodies.
Miriam Jerotich Kilimo
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Gender diversity, Labour in the Boardroom, and Gender Quotas
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022 This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director represents shareholders or employees during the period ...
Kunze, Ariane, Scharfenkamp, Katrin
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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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