Political Inequality: A blog since 2010

Tag: gender quotas

  • Gender Quotas in Politics

    Gender Quotas in Politics

    Gender quotas in politics are rules that aim at providing opportunities for women to be in parliament or to appear on candidate lists in elections for political office. In this post, we discuss the types of gender quotas in politics, how parliaments in democracy adopt quotas, whether they are effective in placing more women in…

  • Gender and Political Inequality in Eastern Europe: Open Access Resources from the POLINQ Project

    Gender and Political Inequality in Eastern Europe: Open Access Resources from the POLINQ Project

    What is the relationship between gender and political inequality (POLINQ)? Despite the promises of political equality of the Communist era, and the promises of the post-Communist era, from 1945 to now women in Eastern Europe have endured political inequality. Political inequality is defined as structured differences in influence over political decisions, and the outcomes of…