More than fifty countries have adopted quota laws to regulate the selection or election of
women to political office. This suggests that states have begun to identify quotas as a new …

Given that all women's movements share a unique relationship to the State–their exclusion
from political power, often legally and occasionally constitutionally underpinned, has this …

This article analyses the Belgian gender parity debate of the 1990s. It first sketches the
history of this debate and how it led to the adoption of statutory gender quotas (1994 and …

This article explores the feminist campaign that led to the adoption of the gender parity laws
(1999–2000), mandating an affirmative action policy to enhance women's representation in …

Les lois dites «sur la parité», votées en 1999 (révision des articles 3 et 4 de la Constitution)
et en 2000 (instauration de quotas sexués dans l'établissement des candidatures à la …

Once a country allergic to any type of preferential treatment or quota measure for women,
France has become a country that applies gender quotas to regulate women's presence and …

The introduction of quotas can help women overcome certain obstacles to political office that
thwart an egalitarian representation. Various countries have recently adopted quota laws in …

Combining fresh, critical insights from a feminist and anti-racist perspective, this is an
excellent synthesis of some of the most important issues on the French public policy agenda …

In this chapter, I will discuss the literature that has informed the theoretical framework I have
created to explain the differences in policy debates and policy outcomes on the hijab …

In this paper, I examine the policies of the regional council of Brittany, France to determine
whether the recent dramatic increase in the number of female officeholders resulted in an …