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Explaining Women's Representation: The Role of Legislative Recruitment and Electoral Systems
(United Nations, 2005-12-12)
This paper focuses on two issues.1 First, we examine the principal steps involved in the process of recruiting individuals to countries’ legislatures. Second, we look at the effect of development, culture, and a country’s ...
Gender Mainstreaming
(United Nations, 2000)
Impact of electoral systems on women’s representation in politics
(Parliamentary Union, 2009-09-08)
Equal participation of women and men in political life is one of the foundations of democracy and one of the goals of the Council of Europe, reaffirmed by the organisation’s Committee of Ministers as recently as last May1. ...
The Concept and Practice of Affirmative Action
(United Nations, 2002-06-17)
Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels
(United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), 2005)
In accordance with its multi-year programme of work for 2001-2006, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will consider “Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels” as one of two ...