Challenging Gender Inequality Within the State: Policy Agencies and Quota Laws in Latin America

Piscopo, Jennifer M.; Thomas, Gwynn

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“…Governments have invested in education, especially higher education, and legislatures have removed gendered barriers to access—like Chile’s education reform in 2000 prohibiting universities from expelling pregnant students. Latin America elects more women parliamentarians than any other world region, with proportions increasing from 9% in 1990 to over 25% by 2015 and 30% by 2020 (Piscopo 2020). These improvements to Latin American women’s status were hastened by public policy, from increased social spending on early childhood education and childcare (Filgueira and Martínez Franzoni 2017) to the adoption of gender quota laws for women candidates in 15 of the 18 democratic Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the region (Piscopo 2020).…”

Section: Studying Latin American Legislators’ Gender Equality Attitudesmentioning

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Opening the Attitudinal Black Box: Three Dimensions of Latin American Elites’ Attitudes about Gender Equality

Alexander

Bohigues

Piscopo

2022

Political Research Quarterly

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This paper takes one of the first, direct approaches to understanding which factors shape which attitudes towards gender equality among political elites. We examine support for gender equality among legislators in 13 Latin American countries, using 10 new questions from the 2015–2018 wave of the Latin American elites survey (PELA). We argue that legislators’ attitudes about gender equality fall into three distinct dimensions: holding egalitarian views, recognizing that gender inequality is a problem, and supporting state action to hasten gender equality. Overall, women express the more gender-equal orientation on all three dimensions, while factors like religiosity and ideology matter differently for different dimensions. These findings demonstrate the need for more nuance in measuring and analyzing attitudes towards gender equality, in order to better understand the link between descriptive and substantive representation.

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Opening the Attitudinal Black Box: Three Dimensions of Latin American Elites’ Attitudes about Gender Equality

Alexander

Bohigues

Piscopo

2022

Political Research Quarterly

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Representación política y género en América Latina

Martin

2024

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El dossier reúne cuatro artículos que se enfocan en la discusión sobre quién, dónde y cómo se representa, desde una perspectiva de género y a partir del análisis de casos empíricos de América Latina, tanto nacionales como subnacionales, en la etapa que se inicia en la tercera ola democrática. Se articulan entre sí en torno a la pregunta por la cantidad de mujeres en cargos de representación popular y en el cómo ejercen esa representación (representación descriptiva y sustantiva), observando el impacto de las medidas correctivas de la representación, tales como las cuotas y la paridad. Se preguntan cómo acogen las instituciones estas medidas y cómo impacta la mayor presencia de mujeres en la distribución interna de espacios de poder. En consecuencia, a más de tres décadas del inicio de estas medidas, el dossier ofrece un balance, basado en evidencia empírica, de los resultados de su aplicación en tres países, Argentina, Brasil y Costa Rica.

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Challenging Gender Inequality Within the State: Policy Agencies and Quota Laws in Latin America

Cited by 2 publications

References 23 publications

Opening the Attitudinal Black Box: Three Dimensions of Latin American Elites’ Attitudes about Gender Equality

Opening the Attitudinal Black Box: Three Dimensions of Latin American Elites’ Attitudes about Gender Equality

Representación política y género en América Latina

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