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Implementation of Electoral Gender Quotas: Evidence from the 2002 Moroccan Elections - Couverture souple

Darhour, Hanane

 
9783659165337: Implementation of Electoral Gender Quotas: Evidence from the 2002 Moroccan Elections
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659165336 ISBN 13 : 9783659165337
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

It is assumed worldwide that expanding women’s representation in the parliament through a quota system represents one of the strategies leading to women’s empowerment. Engaging the attitudes of male and female MPs in Morocco, I strive in this book to understand how being a woman affects women’s access to legislative bodies, and also their capacity to act and make decisions. Using a qualitative methodology, based on in-depth interviews conducted in the Moroccan parliament, I argue that gender norms and expectations provide structural and political constraints for women’s presence and participation and prove to be impossible to overcome through the sole use of a gender quota. Gender quotas can lead to women’s presence but not necessarily to their empowerment. The analysis should help shed light on the implications of the implementation of electoral gender quotas in Morocco on women's empowerment, and should be especially useful to students and researchers in gender and politics.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It is assumed worldwide that expanding women’s representation in the parliament through a quota system represents one of the strategies leading to women’s empowerment. Engaging the attitudes of male and female MPs in Morocco, I strive in this book to understand how being a woman affects women’s access to legislative bodies, and also their capacity to act and make decisions. Using a qualitative methodology, based on in-depth interviews conducted in the Moroccan parliament, I argue that gender norms and expectations provide structural and political constraints for women’s presence and participation and prove to be impossible to overcome through the sole use of a gender quota. Gender quotas can lead to women’s presence but not necessarily to their empowerment. The analysis should help shed light on the implications of the implementation of electoral gender quotas in Morocco on women's empowerment, and should be especially useful to students and researchers in gender and politics.

Biographie de l'auteur

Hanane DARHOUR is a PhD holder in Gender Studies And Linguistics in Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morroco. She is currently a Professor in Ibn Zohr University. She is the author of “Mapping Young Scholars’ Research on Women in Public Life in the MENA Region”. Her research interests include Gender and Politics, Electoral Gender Quotas.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659165336
ISBN 13 
9783659165337
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
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