Gender quotas in the French bureaucratic elite: the soft power of restricted coercion

Jacquemart, Alban; Revillard, Anne; Bereni, Laure

doi:10.1057/s41253-020-00112-y

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“…Different from some places (e.g. French senior civil service, Jacquemart et al, 2020), there is no mandatory gender quota policy for civil service selection in Hong Kong and Macau. The enhanced female representation in the civil service is largely due to the adoption of substantive and active RB tools such as improved educational opportunities and social services for women, procedural and passive RB tools of treating women equally in civil service selection, incentive tools of family-friendly welfare policies, learning and procedural tools such as setting up advisory bodies, capacity tools such as statistical information collection and dissemination, as well as symbolic and information tools of public education.…”

Section: Striving For Gender Equality In the Civil Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the analytical scope of tools for advancing representative bureaucracy: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Macau

2023

Chinese Public Administration Review

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Studying the contexts and features of locally-relevant tools of representative bureaucracy (RB) adopted in Hong Kong and Macau during the decolonizing and post-colonial periods could contribute to the literature of RB originated from Western contexts. The study found that political contexts of societal pressure, decolonization, and power handover to China have been driving the choice of RB tools in two places. Political contexts also explained different and similar implementation paces and effects of RB tools in two places. The paper suggests that the analysis of RB shall not be limited to one or two passive RB tools that target government input but be expanded to include the choice and effects of RB tools that target government processes, output, and outcome. The expanded analytical scope of RB will be useful for post-colonial contexts where the colonial legacies often co-exist with unequal representation among groups, and where state capacity is often weak.

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Section: Striving For Gender Equality In the Civil Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the analytical scope of tools for advancing representative bureaucracy: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Macau

2023

Chinese Public Administration Review

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“…Thus far, while there is movement towards policy outcomes that reach the level of complex gender transformation in the pursuit of corporate gender equality and in the five different sectors of policy implementation in France (Mazur and Engeli, 2020), only simple gender transformation has been achieved in a limited number of instances, for example, in the implementation of gender quotas in the upper civil service in France, and in Norway, in the implementation of corporate board policy (Engeli and Mazur, 2022). In France, white male upper-level civil servants changed their frames about dominant gender norms to implement a punitive policy on quotas that focused primarily on upper-class elite woman -the same target of corporate board gender equality across the 17 countries analysed (Jacquemart et al, 2020).…”

Section: Intersectional Issuesmentioning

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The practice of ideas in gender equality policy: comparative lessons from the field

Bustelo

Mazur

2023

European Journal of Politics and Gender

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This thematic section seeks to contribute to emerging research on gender and policy that combines post-adoption and ideational approaches to address how and why ideas matter in gender equality policy implementation. In this article, the two research streams are first discussed. Next, the potential ingredients for gender transformation from current research are presented and then examined in the cases of post-adoption in Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, France and the Council of Europe in the four contributions to the thematic section. The concluding comparative assessment confirms what research has already found: the interplay between actors, ideas and institutions is crucial. Who comes forward and the ideas and political meanings those actors advance are what ultimately matter, dictated in certain policy sectors by the institutional micro-foundations of that domain. The article ends with the lessons learned from, and next steps that come out of, this thematic section.

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“…Nonetheless, gender quotas adopted in other domains are also dealt with in the literaturethough vastly in minority. Namely, some attention has been given to quotas in higher education (Bagues and Esteve-Volart 2010;Checchi, Cicognani, and Kulic 2019;Deschamps 2018;Lemercier 2015;Park 2020;Popp et al 2019;Voorspoels and Bleijenbergh 2019), in public service (Bereni and Revillard 2015;Bui-xuan 2015;Jacquemart, Revillard, and Bereni 2020;Stock 2006), as well as in experimental tournaments (Czibor and Dominguez Martinez 2019) and chess tournaments (De Sousa and Niederle 2022). It is to be noted that the adoption of a quota as a gender equality policy mostly concerns decision-making bodies.…”

Section: Ii2 the Genesis Of Board And Other Non-electoral Quotasmentioning

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Gender quotas: an interdisciplinary scoping review

Revillard

Tuffy

2023

Fr Polit

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Gender quotas have proliferated worldwide as a major tool of gender equality policies, first in the electoral arena and then expanding to other socioeconomic spheres, notably corporate boards. The ensuing rich body of scientific literature on gender quotas so far remains split across disciplines, with a main partition between political science and economics. This scoping review aims at fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue between research on gender quotas conducted from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives. To this effect, we compiled an original bibliographical database of 379 peer-reviewed articles, which we coded according to a series of variables including discipline, geographical area, quota domain, methodology and research question. Drawing on this database, this review presents an overview of the main findings regarding the genesis and the impact of this policy tool, and offers ideas for the further development of interdisciplinary quota research.

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Gender quotas in the French bureaucratic elite: the soft power of restricted coercion

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

Expanding the analytical scope of tools for advancing representative bureaucracy: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Macau

Expanding the analytical scope of tools for advancing representative bureaucracy: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Macau

The practice of ideas in gender equality policy: comparative lessons from the field

Gender quotas: an interdisciplinary scoping review

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