Next Level Quotas? Corporate and Public Support for Gender Quotas in Executive Management
Administrative SciencesThis study provides the first comprehensive examination of gender quota legislation for executive management positions, executive gender quotas (EGQs), in Icelandic listed companies, alongside the general public’s attitudes toward such measures.
Ásta Dís Óladóttir +4 more
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Are gender equality institutions the policy allies of the feminist movement? A contingent "yes" in the Spanish central state [PDF]
, 2007 This article studies the extent to which gender equality institutions are the policy allies of the feminist movement in Spain. A policy ally of the feminist movement is defined as one that adopts the demands of the movement and includes them in the ...
Valiente Fernández, Celia
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Building long-term relations of trust between civil society, voters and female politicians is essential to gender quotas’ success [PDF]
, 2015 Over recent decades, more than 100 countries have introduced gender quotas worldwide. The international community has championed quota policies as a fast track to increase women’s presence in national parliaments.
Lloren, Anouk
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Gender and democratic politics: a comparative analysis of consolidation in Argentina and Chile [PDF]
, 2000 This article highlights a number of themes useful in the gendered analysis of democratic consolidation in Latin America by means of a comparative analysis of Argentina and Chile.
Waylen, G.
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Gender quotas and politicians' education
Journal of Economic Behavior & OrganizationThe authors wish to thank seminar participants at the Oviedo Economics Seminars, the Associate Editor and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions. We also thank Manuel Bagues for sharing part of the dataset used in Bagues and Campa (2021). Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID28020-118585GB-100).
Francesca Passarelli, David Boto-García
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Quota Shocks: Electoral Gender Quotas and Government Spending Priorities Worldwide
The Journal of Politics, 2018 The rapid expansion of electoral gender quotas in the past few decades has been met with considerable scholarly and public attention.
Clayton, Amanda, Zetterberg, Pär
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Women’s Movement for Gender Quotas in Nigeria and Ghana
Modern Africa, 2018 The third wave of the international women’s movement expressly broadened the focus of women’s activism to incorporate the clamour for more political representation of women.
Ronke I. Ako-Nai, Babatunde F. Obamamoye
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It takes time: the long-term effect of gender quota [PDF]
, 2014 We have estimated the changes in parties' behaviour following the introduction of quota regulations in Belgium. We expected to find a curvilinear effect: shortly after the introduction, women candidates would be worse off due to, amongst others ...
Maddens, Bart +2 more
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Women MPs and the socio-environmental preconditions for political participation in the Federal Republic [PDF]
, 2007 With the election of Germany's first woman chancellor in November 2005 it would appear that equal opportunities have finally been achieved in German politics.
McKay, J
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Spill-over Effects of Affirmative Action: Political Representation and the Power of the Elderly [PDF]
, 2014 There is evidence that age matters in politics. In this paper we study whether implementation of affirmative action policies on gender can generate additional effects on an alternative dimension of representation, namely, the age of politicians.
Baltrunaite, Audinga +2 more
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