Title: Gender quotas - a key to equality? : a case study of Iraq and Afghanistan

Authors: Dahlerup, Drude and Nordlund, Anja Taarup

Place: Stockholm

Publisher: Stockholm university

Year: [2004]

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Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Keywords: women, affirmative action programmes, political representation, afghanistan, iraq

Abstract: 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.

URL: http://www.statsvet.su.se/quotas/iraq_afghanistan_04.doc

Document type: Portal