Do voters regard male and female candidates equally? Does apparent religiosity of
candidates help or hurt their electoral chances? Where biases exist, what explains them …

Women's rights is a salient and contested issue in contemporary Arab societies—particularly
after the Arab spring—and a central theme in cross-national surveys conducted in Morocco …

Using data from a survey of 200 M oroccan and A lgerian parliamentarians, this article
assesses the relationship between parliamentarian gender, quotas, and constituency …

Despite growing evidence of pro-female bias in the electorate elsewhere, conventional
wisdom holds that voters in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) prefer male …

Benstead traces women's descriptive political representation in Tunisia from the first woman
elected to parliament in 1959 to the introduction of the law of parity following the Arab spring …

Gender quotas are a means to improve women's political representation. This article
examines the impact of Jordan's municipal quota enacted in 2007. The quota drew into the …

Public opinion is patriarchal in the MENA, leading to low women's workforce participation
and political and economic problems. Efforts to explain attitudes focus on Islam and …

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, women's representation increased in several countries in
the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) due to the adoption of gender quotas, including …

Gender and politics scholars have sought to determine whether there is a link between
women's descriptive representation, operationalized as the proportion of seats held by …

Scholars, policymakers, and citizens express concern about the impact of gender and Islam
on political participation. Despite the attention, many questions remain: do male or female …