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Health and the Political Agency of Women [PDF]

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women.
Bhalotra, Sonia R., Clots-Figueras, Irma
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Gender quotas in management boards [PDF]

, 2012
The note reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of legal instruments as compared with voluntary regimes in narrowing the gender gap on corporate management boards.
Armstrong, J., Walby, S.
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Explaining the number of preferential votes for women in an open-list PR system: an investigation of the 2003 federal elections in Flanders (Belgium) [PDF]

, 2010
The electoral system is an important factor influencing female representation in Parliament. There is a consensus that a proportional representation (PR) system is more beneficial for women than a majoritarian system.
Maddens, Bart, Wauters, Bram, Weekers, Karolien   +2 more
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Los partidos colombianos y la representación de las mujeres (1990-2006).

Colombia Internacional, 2010
Do parties, which proclaim a gender equity commitment, translate such commitment by including quotas for women in their electoral lists and directorate? Do they have financial funds and political training policies expressly directed towards women? As the
María Emma Wills Obregón., Florentina Cardozo García.   +1 more
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Lessons from a Late Adopter: Feminist Advocacy, Democratizing Reforms, and Gender Quotas in Chile

Journal of Politics in Latin America
Many Latin American and other Global South countries adopted gender quotas during democratic transitions. What explains late-adopting cases like Chile?
Jennifer M. Piscopo, Gwynn Thomas, Peter Siavelis, Magda Hinojosa   +3 more
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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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The impact of board gender quotas on analyst recommendations: A difference-in-differences analysis

Revista de Contabilidad: Spanish Accounting Review
Norway provides the case study for examining the impact of board gender quotas on firm performance. The debate that ultimately led to the introduction of the quota was heated and polarised, with opponents of the quota arguing that the inability of the ...
Josep Garcia-Blandon, José María Argilés-Bosch, Diego Ravenda   +2 more
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Iceland is the best, but still not equal

Søkelys på Arbeidslivet, 2018
While Iceland ranks high internationally on gender equality, it does not follow that equality has been reached. For gender equality, wages as well as possibilities for participating in the labor market should be equal, and men and women should ...
Katrin Olafsdottir
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Can political reservations affect political equilibria in the long-term? Evidence from local elections in rural India [PDF]

While many studies explored impacts of political quotas for females, often with ambiguous results, underlying mechanisms and long-term effects have received relatively little attention.
Deininger, Klaus, Jin, Songqing, Nagarajan, Hari K.   +2 more
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« Nous sommes méchantes les unes envers les autres » : les femmes du Mouvement vers le socialisme (MAS), une approche typologique (2015-2025)

Cahiers des Amériques Latines
The rise of the Movimiento al Socialismo-Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos (MAS-IPSP) in 2006, with Evo Morales coming to power, marked a turning point in Bolivian politics.
Zara Abud Ferrufino
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