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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Gender quotas"”.
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Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards: A Holistic Analysis
Gender quotas for corporate boards have risen in popularity ever since Norway implemented the first quota in 2003. Proponents point to economic arguments (i.e. enhanced return on assets and return on equity) as well as social good rationales (i.e. bolstered corporate social responsibility and …
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Gender Quotas in Electoral Systems: Explaining Voluntary versus Legal Quotas Worldwide.
North Carolina State University Theses Sociology.
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Subverting Reform: The Politics of Gender Quotas in Kenya's County Assemblies
Since 2013, Kenya’s constitutional gender quota has ensured that women hold at least one third of seats in the country’s subnational county assemblies. Yet significant inequities in representation and influence persist. Drawing on 143 interviews with candidates, politicians, and party officials as …
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The impact of electoral gender quotas on women’s representation in legislative decision-making bodies
To overcome gender bias and long-standing inequalities, more than 110 countries worldwide are reported to practice gender quotas in some form. Nonetheless, electoral quotas are not uncontroversial, despite their political appeal and common adoption. Critics note that such measures run a danger of …
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The global landscape of gender quotas on corporate boards : contexts for adoption and opposition in 2014
There has been an acceleration in the adoption of gender quotas on boards since Norway pioneered legislation in 2003. Countries that have made parallel reforms have primarily been in the western European bloc, while other countries have displayed strong resistance to this measure. The reasons …
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Assessing the effectiveness of gender quotas in enhancing women's political leadership - A case study of Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa
… in political leadership remains low due to gender inequalities. Women’s political leadership is continually undermined by systemic patriarchal factors such as custom, culture, tradition, socialisation and gender stereotypes. Other major contributing factors to women’s low political …
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Supervisory Board Gender Diversity and Gender Quotas: Analysing the Impact on Financial Performance and Management Board Gender Diversity in Germany.
More than ten years after the financial crisis in 2007 corporate boards are again busy navigating through turbulent times. Today, the financial market and a globalized and interconnected world are not the only challenges they need to manage. For quite some time companies have been facing additional …
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Engaging in the quota debate: From equal opportunity to equality of presence
… of political decision-making. To overcome the gender discriminatory behavior still embedded within political institutions and processes, feminist movements have pressed government heads and political parties to adopt “women friendly” policies. Legislation of gender quotas to secure women’s …
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Globalization and the diffusion of gender policy reforms in Latin America
… American countries introduced similar national gender equality policy reforms. The key policy areas in which this convergence took place were the criminalization of domestic violence, the introduction of state agencies for women, and the incorporation into law of candidate gender quotas for …
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Women's Legislative Representation: Attitudes and Institutions
… of political institutions: electoral systems and gender quotas, are described and tested quantitatively and are found to be significant in some models. There are four brief case studies examining women’s legislative representation based on the variables used in the quantitative analyses and …
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Gender Diversity in Corporate Boards in France: An Analysis
… boards in 2003, governments have looked to gender quotas as a tool to accelerate gender equality. Though the effects in Norway were at first mixed, as the so-called “golden skirt” problem resulted in only a few women occupying multiple board seats, several European countries followed …
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Exploring the political, social, and theoretical aspects of gender parity in Senegal
How does gender-related legislation interact with the existing political, social, and religious norms? How do these interactions contribute to social changes, as well as to the theoretical discussion around gender norms and feminism in Africa? In the early 1990s, Africa saw a surge of women’s …
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The Awakening: Empowered by water what are the personal and political implications for female activists in the Irish Anti-Water charges movement?
… organisation, nor is it concerned with gender-specific issues, the key findings in this research will demonstrate an astute and growing political awareness among women and a determined commitment to active political engagement. While this has not yet awakened any great ambition for these …
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NEGOTIATING PRIVATELY FOR AN EFFECTIVE ROLE IN PUBLIC SPACE: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN IN PANCHAYATS OF ORISSA
… its practicability, such as the fear that quotas on such a large scale could never be filled or there would never be large enough numbers of women candidates, and if they came at all, they would be prevented from exercising any real power. However, far beyond expectations, millions of …
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Understanding the Role of Women as Leaders in Mexican Politics: Looking Back and Moving Forward
… that occur in a globalized world have pushed gender equality to the forefront of many debates in the western world. Nevertheless, cultural values continue to influence the way in which governments, societies, and individuals behave in regard to the roles that men and women play. In Mexico, …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… most important to this impact was the electoral gender quota enacted within the 2005 Constitution, stipulating no less than 25 per cent of seats in the Iraq Parliament to be filled by women.This research seeks to elucidate the strides made towards political mobilisation of women in the Iraqi …
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The Changing State for Women : Political and Social Mobilisation for Iraqi Women Members of Parliament Post-2003
… most important to this impact was the electoral gender quota enacted within the 2005 Constitution, stipulating no less than 25 per cent of seats in the Iraq Parliament to be filled by women.This research seeks to elucidate the strides made towards political mobilisation of women in the Iraqi …
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WOMEN’S POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN AFRICA: POLITICAL VIOLENCE TARGETING WOMEN, POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS
… especially in those countries with a robust gender quota law, women’s inclusion in politics and government has been uneven across the region and though women’s inclusion holds great promise for the advancement of rights, there can also be considerable challenges that arise as women’s presence …
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Politics of Parity: Gendering the Tunisian Second Republic, 2011-2014
POLITICS OF PARITY: GENDERING THE TUNISIAN SECOND REPUBLIC, 2011-2014 Zoe Petkanas This dissertation explores the role of female political actors in the gendered rebuilding of Tunisia’s post-Ben Ali political infrastructure and how gender both informed and featured in the early stages of the …