Implementation of Electoral Gender Quotas

ISBN-13: 9783659165337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 284 str.

Hanane Darhour

Opis

It is assumed worldwide that expanding womens representation in the parliament through a quota system represents one of the strategies leading to womens empowerment. Engaging the attitudes of male and female MPs in Morocco, I strive in this book to understand how being a woman affects womens access to legislative bodies, and also their capacity to act and make decisions. Using a qualitative methodology, based on in-depth interviews conducted in the Moroccan parliament, I argue that gender norms and expectations provide structural and political constraints for womens presence and participation and prove to be impossible to overcome through the sole use of a gender quota. Gender quotas can lead to womens presence but not necessarily to their empowerment. The analysis should help shed light on the implications of the implementation of electoral gender quotas in Morocco on womens empowerment, and should be especially useful to students and researchers in gender and politics.

O autorze

Hanane DARHOUR is a PhD holder in Gender Studies And Linguistics in Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morroco. She is currently a Professor in Ibn Zohr University. She is the author of Mapping Young Scholars Research on Women in Public Life in the MENA Region . Her research interests include Gender and Politics, Electoral Gender Quotas.