Refine your search
Categories
Availability
Contributor
Copyright Status
Refine your search
- Results per page : 10
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tremblay, Manon
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- CAN 6 2010
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, burgerschap, volksvertegenwoordigers, vrouwenkiesrecht, quota, verkiezingen, politieke partijen, statistiek, historisch, Canada
- Description
- Women represent a slight majority of Quebec's population, yet they continue to occupy a minority of seats in its National Assembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate. To explain why this is the author examines Quebec women's political engagements from 1791 to the present. She traces the path that led to women obtaining the rights to vote and run for office and then draws on statistics and interviews with female politicians to paint an indepth portrait of women's underrepresentation and its main causes. Her account not only documents the democratic deficit in Canada's parliamentary systems, it also outlines strategies to improve women's access to legislative representation in Canada and elsewhere.
female legislators in West European parliaments
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Diaz, Mercedes Mateo
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 53 2008
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, volksvertegenwoordigers, politieke stromingen, macht, gender, emancipatie, quota, EU-landen
- Description
- This book examines political participation, representation and legitimacy in the national parliaments of European Union countries. The book is organised around three major questions: what affects the presence of women in parliament?: does the number of women in parliament have an effect?: and are women in parliament representing women? A surprising result of the research is that relatively small groups of women can influence various aspects of the legislative process. Diaz researched different electoral systems, and concludes that the level of proportionality of the system influences the extent to which parliament and assemblies mirror their polulations, both socially and ideologically.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dahlerup, Drude > (ed.)
- Creator
- Leyenaar, Monique > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Geissel, Brigitte
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, volksvertegenwoordigers, quota, politieke partijen, gemeentelijk beleid, Denemarken, IJsland, Duitsland, Nederland, Australië, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Zweden, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Will gender balance in elected assemblies soon be reached? Around 100 years after women's suffrage was gained most countries are still at some distance from this goal. In 2013, the average representation of women in the world's parliaments was around 20 per cent. This book analyses the longitudinal development of women's political representation in eight old democracies, where women were enfranchised before and around World War I: Denmark, Iceland, Germany, The Netherlands, New Jersey (USA), New South Wales (Australia), Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries/states have all followed an incremental track model of change in women's position in political life, but have followed different trajectories. This slow development stands in contrast to recent examples of fast track development in many countries from the Global South, not least as a result of the adoption of gender quotas. Furthermore, the book discusses in four separate chapters the common historical development in old democracies, the different trajectories and sequences, the framing of women politicians, and the impact of party and party system change. In this book a new model of male dominance is developed and defined in terms of both degree and scope. Four stages are identified: male monopoly, small minority, large minority, and gender balance.
women's political representation in democracies around the world
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Thames, Frank C.
- Creator
- Williams, Margaret S.
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, volksvertegenwoordigers, bedrijven, juridische beroepen, quota, statistiek
- Description
- Women's participation in parliaments, high courts, and executive offices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but this global increase in women's representation masks significant variation among different democratic political systems. In December of 2009, Rwanda's legislature contained 56% women, while the U.S. Congress contained only about 17% and the Japanese Diet had only 11%. Since 2000, only twenty-seven women have achieved executive office worldwide.This book is a look at women's participation in all aspects of public life in the main democratic political institutions—the executive, the judiciary, the legislature, and within political parties. It presents original data from 159 democratic countries spanning 50 years
1995–2020 - 25 years in review
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Druciarek, Malgorzata
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, diversiteit, volksvertegenwoordigers, quota, gender mainstreaming, internationaal, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- This report takes stock of women’s representation in politics over a 25-year span, since the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women took place in Beijing in 1995. The overall percentage of women in parliaments increased from 11.3 per cent in 1995 to nearly 24.9 in 2020. However, nine countries still have less than 5 per cent women in their parliaments. The largest progress in women’s representation has been achieved by Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates, Andorra and Bolivia. Although Europe is no longer in the lead as a region, the Nordic countries are the only sub-region to have over 40 per cent women parliamentarians. Sixteen of the top 20 countries with the largest share of women in parliament in 2020, apply some type of gender quota. Other incentives include policies to promote women’s recruitment and a more gender-sensitive political culture.
gender, politics and nation-building
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Al-Tamimi, Huda
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- NO 6 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, quota, volksvertegenwoordigers, politici, media, vrouwbeelden, Irak, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Al-Tamimi studies study of women's political representation in Iraq. In the post-invasion period, the potential for Iraqi women to participate in the country's political structure has been one of its most notable results. The 2005 Constitution required that 25% of seats in the Iraqi Parliament be filled by women. Despite subsequent parliamentary statistics suggesting great strides for female political participation, there has been a resounding silence on the wider implications of this quota for women in Iraqi political life.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Baalen, C.C. van > (red.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Hellevoort, Marieke
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- NED 6 1999 - B
- Description
- Bevat onder meer artikelen van Mieke Aerts: Om de kans op één vrouw in het parlement. De vrouwenkiesrechtbeweging tussen neutraliteit en richting: Monique Leijenaar: Gedwongen evenwicht. Quota en wettelijke maatregelen in enkele Europese landen gericht op het bereiken van een genderevenwicht in het parlement.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dahlerup, Drude
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2018 - A
- Thesaurus
- democratie, politieke participatie, quota, volksvertegenwoordigers
- Description
- In this essay Dahlerup explains how democracy has failed women and what can be done to tackle it. Political institutions, including political parties are the real gatekeepers to elected positions all over the world, but they need to be much more inclusive. By reforming these institutions and carefully implementing gender quotas we can move towards improved gender equality and greater democratization.
Showing 1-8 of 8 records.