Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership … positions in politics and business across the globe. In many countries, policy-makers have responded by introducing gender … quotas in politics and increasingly, many have expressed an interest in requiring gender quotas for corporate boards. This …

In the paper there is a use of nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify … reserved for women heads: political and administrative inexperience make such councils more vulnerable to bureaucratic capture …. Our findings highlight capacity building as necessary for bolstering the effectiveness of political quotas for women. …

. However, the question of how the crisis is affecting men and women differently has tended to be marginalised. This paper …

Reconsiders tax reform and economic emancipation of women with respect to public policy formation in The Netherlands …. In particular, investigates the attempts of organised interest groups of the Dutch women's liberation movement during the … debate in The Netherlands. Organised women's interest groups have a specific viewpoint on these issues. These viewpoints are …

Much of the literature on women in politics seeks to answer two questions: Why are there so few women in elective … office? What do women in elective office do differently from men? We connect these two strands of the literature by showing … that the process by which women are selected into office has important consequences for their performance once elected. We …

examines the idea of representative democracy and the manner in which democratic politics may be sought to be crafted as a … designs and political reservation for women; and the third examines debates on women’s political participation and …

throughout the city. The study concludes that women’s participation in politics at the barangay level is directly and inversely … promoting women’s equal representation with men in local politics and the efforts to improve the political landscape for women …Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the …