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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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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn +9 more
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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 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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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigated the physiological and morphological adaptations of the liver of the carnivorous fish Pygocentrus nattereri (piranha) in response to seasonal variations (dry and rainy seasons) in the Brazilian Pantanal. The objective was to describe how the liver, a central organ in metabolic regulation, responds to environmental ...
Maria Eduarda Corona Garcia +9 more
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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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The 2016 Irish election demonstrated how gender quotas can shift the balance on female representation [PDF]
, 2016 The 2016 general election in Ireland was the first where legal gender quotas for candidate selection applied, with the election producing a 40 per cent increase in the number of female parliamentarians (TDs) elected.
Buckley, Fiona
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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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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao +3 more
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