Cلslavskل, Tereza Wennerholm | 2010
- Author(s): Cلslavskل, Tereza Wennerholm
- Publisher: International gender policy network (IGPN)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, political participation, political parties, political representation, georgia, kazakhstan, ukraine
Based on interviews with politicians in Georgia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, this document presents the political parties’ attitude towards women’s political representation & participation, the current situation in the 3 countries and recommendations for the political parties and other stakeholders.
Dahlerup, Drude and Francisco, Josefa | 2006]
- Author(s): Dahlerup, Drude and Francisco, Josefa
- Publisher: Isis international-Manila [etc.
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, affirmative action programmes, political participation, europe, asia
This monograph contributes to the continuing reflection and debates on women in politics and governance with one contribution focusing on experiences with gender quotas in Nordic European countries and another on implications for Asian women entering politics or occupying government positions.
Dahlerup, Drude and Freidenvall, Lenita | 2003
- Author(s): Dahlerup, Drude and Freidenvall, Lenita
- Publisher: Stockholm university. Department of political science
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, affirmative action programmes, political representation, argentina, costa rica, south africa, nordic countries
This article analyses quota discourses, identifies different quota systems and discusses which factors have facilitated the introduction of electoral gender quotas, contrasting the Scandinavian development with experience in Argentina, Costa Rica and South Africa in the last decades.
Dahlerup, Drude and Nordlund, Anja Taarup | [2004]
- Author(s): Dahlerup, Drude and Nordlund, Anja Taarup
- Publisher: Stockholm university
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, affirmative action programmes, political representation, afghanistan, iraq
This article presents the main perspectives of a Swedish research project on gender quotas and analyses recent developments in Afghanistan and Iraq, countries which illustrate the new trend in demands for gender quotas even in strictly male-dominated societies.
Dake, Mawuli | 2008
- Author(s): Dake, Mawuli
- Publisher: Fahamu]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: women, elections, ghana
The ways in which women are being locked out of the democratic processes in Ghana are examined and it is argues that societies 'cannot claim to be committed to the principles and ideals of democracy and the universal values of equality' if groups within are marginalized.