Women's numeric representation has increased worldwide, still gender inequalities within
parliaments hinder women's chance to effectively conduct legislative work. Despite the …

Este libro trata acerca de cómo son los políticos que nos representan, cómo han sido
seleccionados y qué carreras políticas han seguido, qué les motiva a entrar (y permanecer) …

Purpose Employment discrimination persists across global labour markets inflicting
considerable social and economic costs. The existing literature tends to focus on explaining …

Despite years of gender equality research and initiatives, women are still highly
underrepresented in top management positions. In Denmark, the number of female top …

Nowadays legislatures are largely based on committee systems. This enables a division of
work and specialisation, in the context of highly complex politics and policy development. It …

The growing corpus of studies about political elites in Spain has tended to focus on national
and regional parliaments and executives, rather than on the municipal level of government …

This inquiry investigates the effectiveness of legislative gender quotas on women's electoral
representation and how it evolves over time and across countries. Using 190 countries …

Women occupy leadership positions at all levels of government. While the topic has been
extensively investigated and referred to national legislatures, other venues remain under …

La literatura dedicada al estudio de las élites políticas—y, en particular, de las
parlamentarias—ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia de analizar las características de …

Parliamentary committees were formally settled in the Spanish Parliament for the first time
more than 200 years ago. Nowadays, they play a key role–together with the parliamentary …