Implementing Gender Quotas in Portugal: A Success Story?

Espírito-Santo, Ana; Santos, Maria Helena; Teixeira, Ana Lúcia

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“…This may be an indication of how superficially party leaders try to deal with the political inclusion of women. This attitude can also be observed in the implementation of affirmative measures such as gender quotas, in which the parties started by complying only with the minimum legal requirements (Espírito-Santo et al 2022).…”

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“…The electoral district's size (the number of seats assigned for a given district) has a still ambiguous effect in this regard. While many studies state the benefit that more contested positions would bring to women's election chances (Araújo 2005;Dowling and Miller 2015;Espírito-Santo et al 2022;Schwindt-Bayer 2009), other research has come to different results (Matland 2005;Sacchet 2013). However, it is to be expected that with more positions to be won, parties tend to have a more balanced list, offering more space to minority political groups, such as women (Schwindt-Bayer 2005).…”

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Gender and Politics: A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis of the Statutes of Brazilian and Portuguese Political Parties

2023

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This paper presents a descriptive and comparative analysis of the statutes of Brazilian and Portuguese political parties regarding women’s political participation. The main objective was to evaluate if and in what way women are included in the statutory guidelines. By means of the document analysis technique, we analyzed the statutes of political parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies in the case of Brazil and the Assembly of the Republic in the case of Portugal. Our research hypothesis is that although the explanatory potential of party ideology has declined as political parties from different positions on the spectrum have started to adopt discourses in favor of women’s political participation, left-wing parties remain more inclusive in their texts. We could observe that in both countries, leftist parties remain the main encouragers of women’s political participation, at least in their statutory rules.

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