Gender Quotas in Politics

Dahlerup, Drude; Freidenvall, Lenita

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“…Specifically, laws are often used symbolically to appease the international community. For example, countries adopt gender quotas or pass women's rights legislation in order to appear legitimate in the international arena (Dahlerup, 2006). These appeasements can be seen as outside interference from a foreign entity.…”

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“… 7 Women’s legal rights are often insufficient to advance women’s status and are typically granted after women’s status increases (Htun & Weldon, 2018). For example, quotas were adopted in Scandinavia after women began winning at higher rates in elections (Dahlerup, 2006). …”

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“…For example,Peiro ´et al (2001) find that abortion rates among women consistently increased under Franco and that legalization had no impact on the rate.7 Women's legal rights are often insufficient to advance women's status and are typically granted after women's status increases(Htun & Weldon, 2018). For example, quotas were adopted in Scandinavia after women began winning at higher rates in elections(Dahlerup, 2006).Kattelman & Burns…”

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Unpacking the concepts: Examining the link between women’s status and terrorism

Kattelman

Burns

2022

Journal of Peace Research

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In this article, we examine how changes in the status of women affect the intensity of terrorism by using three novel approaches. First, we link terrorist ideology more directly to women’s status using a well-tread topic in feminist literature that is rarely applied to political violence: misogyny. Second, we provide more explicit linkages to misogyny by disaggregating terrorist ideology into four typologies (ethnonationalist, religious, right-wing, and left-wing), arguing that the first three have strong themes of masculinity and patriarchy; ideologies when taken to their extremes distill into misogyny. Finally, previous efforts to study gender equality frequently suffer from imprecise theory and concept stretching. We sidestep this issue by instead focusing on women’s status and employ a new series of measures that broaden our understanding of women’s status from a rights-based approach to one that includes women’s security, inclusion, and legal rights. We do this by disaggregating 634 terrorist organizations to determine whether the level of specific women’s status indicators affects the frequency of violence from specific terrorist ideologies. We test this on a sample of 185 countries from 1970 to 2014 and find that increases in women’s security provoke violence from ethnonationalist and religious groups while increases in women’s legal rights incite violence from right-wing groups.

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Unpacking the concepts: Examining the link between women’s status and terrorism

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Burns

2022

Journal of Peace Research

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“…Processes within political parties are often biased against women in that “male characteristics” are given priority in selecting candidates (Mlambo, Kapingura, and Meissner 2019). To maintain their control of the political agenda, male party leaders nominate politically inexperienced and powerless women (Baldez 2006; Dahlerup 2006). Lack of power and resources further limits women's participation in political affairs (Jayal 2006).…”

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“…Women's active participation in electoral politics is a genuine indicator of the effective advancement of democracy in any nation worldwide today. Women's equal representation in political legislatures is vital to initiate political agendas, to promote women's interests, and to legitimate democratic establishments (Dahlerup 2006, 3; P. Rai 2017, 58). To advance women's interests, more than 130 countries have implemented affirmative actions or gender quotas, both at the national and local levels, with the aim of increasing the number of women in political legislatures (Hughes et al 2019).…”

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Exclusion Through Inclusion: Institutional Constraints on Women's Political Empowerment in India and Bangladesh

Prodip

2021

World Affairs

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This comparative case study uses qualitative data to explore and analyze the institutional obstacles that women in reserved seats face to their political empowerment in the Gram Panchayat in India and the Union Parishad in Bangladesh. The findings reveal that women in reserved seats in both countries confront some fundamental institutional barriers, such as a masculine model of politics, lack of political party support, as well as lack of power and resources. Indian women face serious problems—the inclusion of ex-officio members, the rotational system, bureaucratic dominance, and partisan elections—whereas Bangladeshi women suffer from the unequal distribution of reserved seats under a quota policy and lack of clarity in rules, power, and provisions. A lack of financial resources limits the effective participation of women members in the decision-making process in both countries. Further institutional reforms are vital to ensure women’s political empowerment through reserved seats in both countries.

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Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies

2023

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Gender quotas are increasingly being adopted by autocrats in part to legitimize their rule. Yet, even in autocracies, these quotas increase women’s political representation. It thus stands to reason that public support for gender quotas in autocracies might be shaped by this trade-off between advancing women’s rights and granting the regime legitimacy. All else equal, regime opponents should be less supportive of gender quotas in autocracies, wary of legitimizing the regime. We uncover evidence of this proposition in an analysis of region-wide Arab Barometer surveys and a survey experiment in Algeria. We also find that evaluations of this trade-off are conditioned by other demographics, with women, gender egalitarians, and Islamists remaining more consistent in their support for/opposition to gender quotas regardless of regime gains. Overall, our findings suggest that gender quotas in autocracies are viewed through a political lens, creating a potential backlash toward women’s empowerment.

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Gender Quotas in Politics

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Unpacking the concepts: Examining the link between women’s status and terrorism

Unpacking the concepts: Examining the link between women’s status and terrorism

Exclusion Through Inclusion: Institutional Constraints on Women's Political Empowerment in India and Bangladesh

Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies

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