Intersectionality, Quotas, and Minority Women's Political Representation Worldwide

Intersectionality, Quotas, and Minority Women’s Political Representation Worldwide

The majority of the world’s countries have implemented policies designed to advance the political representation of women and/or minority groups. Yet we do not yet understand how these disparate policies affect the election of minority women. In this article, I draw on theories of intersectionality to conduct the first worldwide analysis of the effects of gender and minority quotas on minority ...

Do Gender Quotas Inuence Womens Representation and Policies?

This paper investigates the e¤ect of applying gender quotas on policy decisions. I …rst examine the e¤ect of gender quotas on the representation of female legislators, study the correlation between gender quotas and di¤erent types of government expenditures, and then use quotas as an instrument for the proportion of female legislators to investigate the e¤ect of female legislators on policy out...

Transportation and Minority Womens Employment: Insights from New York

The Effect of Minority Districts and Minority Representation on Political Participation in California

The effect of minority districts and minority representation on political participation in California / Claudine Gay. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. Research publications reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, officers, or Board of Directors of the Public Policy Institute of California. Short sections of text, not to exceed three par...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...