Gender quotas, gender mainstreaming and gender relations in politics

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dc.contributor.authorMeier, Petra
dc.contributor.authorLombardo, Emanuela
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-19T13:33:05Z
dc.date.available2023-06-19T13:33:05Z
dc.date.issued2013-06
dc.description.abstractThis article seeks to reintroduce discussions on gender relations in politics back into scholarly and political debate. Many countries have adopted gender quotas, but it is unclear whether their implementation has meaningfully changed the prevalent inequalities governing gender relations in politics. This article considers whether the implementation of gender quotas could promote change, and assesses this change with reference to five criteria formerly used to assess the strategy of gender mainstreaming. These are a shift towards a more comprehensive concept of gender equality; the incorporation of a gender perspective intersected with other inequalities in mainstream politics; equal political representation; organizational changes in selection and recruitment mechanisms as well as the functioning of politics; and, finally, the displacement of hierarchies, and the empowerment of subjects. Reflection on and empirical illustrations of gender quotas with regard to these criteria reveal a mixed picture, demonstrating the need to reintroduce discussions about gender equality within politics back into gender quota debates. This discussion will not focus on the legitimacy of or need for gender quotas, but on how their implementation can contribute to the improvement of gender relations in politics beyond a quantitative sense. Approaching gender quotas through the use of criteria devised for assessing the gender mainstreaming strategy is helpful in exploring the potential of gender quotas in the transformation of gender relations.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Ciencia Política y de la Administración
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.eprint.idhttps://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/29609
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0032318713488114
dc.identifier.issn0032-3187
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33996
dc.issue.number1
dc.journal.titlePolitical Science
dc.language.isospa
dc.page.final62
dc.page.initial46
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.keywordGender equality
dc.subject.keywordGender equality in politics
dc.subject.keywordGender mainstreaming
dc.subject.keywordGender quotas
dc.subject.keywordIntersectionality
dc.subject.ucmGobiernos
dc.subject.ucmPartidos y grupos políticos
dc.subject.unesco5905.06 Partidos Políticos
dc.titleGender quotas, gender mainstreaming and gender relations in politics
dc.typejournal article
dc.volume.number65
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