Romanian woman involvement in governance after 1990

Matei, Elena; Iațu, Corneliu; Vert, Constantin

doi:10.5937/geopan1001001m

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“…The need to align with the European Union standards before the Romanian society as a whole recognized the need for a feminist agenda has generated an original type of feminism, which does not necessarily reflect a genuine commitment to the involvement of women in public life, but a supranational demand (Miroiu, 2004;Voina, 2017). (Matei, Iaţu & Vert, 2010) and Government (Gârboni, 2014).…”

Section: Women In the Romanian Society After 1989mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Need of Local Identity in Politics. The Case of Women Mayors in the North-East Region of Romania

FEDOR¹

2019

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Women's involvement in politics is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon in Romania, following very contradictory and sinuous trends: starting from a high rate of female participation in the political life during the Communism (only as representatives, but not as decision-makers), to an abrupt drop in the 1990s, when politics was male-dominated, to, finally, a rise of female presence in this field, especially when Romania joined EU. Given these premises, the study aims to offer an overview on women's representation in politics at local level, for the 2016 elections, and to understand if there is a connection between the local identity of a future female candidate within the community and her success during the electoral campaign; we have tried to identify the key elements, if any, for a greater presence of women in the politics and if any gender stereotypes are manifested in the studied rural communities; estimating the Romania's probability to have, in the more or less distant future, a greater presence of women in political life, both in urban and rural areas.

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Section: Women In the Romanian Society After 1989mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Need of Local Identity in Politics. The Case of Women Mayors in the North-East Region of Romania

FEDOR¹

2019

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“…In the present research, the references will be done to the CEECs as Romania shares the common communist past, the challenging transition and the organizational heritage in terms of gender equality. The lack of female-leaders in politics and decision-making positions is presented as a women's choice, yet there are evidences that it is a consequence of cumulative factors of social, political and cultural nature (Matei et al, 2010;Băluță, 2012;Gârboni, 2014). It must be underlined the fact that female interests may be better served if women are given decision making capabilities to raise their voice in the decision making bodies (Swai & Anasel, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Women’s Participation in the Local Government as Voters, Candidates and Mayors in the North East Region of Romania

Fedor¹,

Iațu²

2022

OJPS

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Most of the studies focus on the high representation of women in politics such as in Parliament, Government or Euro Parliament, while little attention is given to the local government despite its importance within the national politic system. Therefore, the aim of this research is to better analyze, observe and understand the dynamics of women's participation at the electoral process in the local government as candidates and winners, but also as voters in the North East Region of Development of Romania. The focus is on the progress made or not toward gender equality in political decision making in the 32 years of democracy. More precisely, how substantial are the changes, after 7 elections, regarding the number of women that chose to run for elections, to what extent were they voted and how high is the success rate of success when compared to the male-candidates. The methodology consists in descriptive analysis of the political representativity, depending on the identified evolution trends, correlated with the Regions of Romania and political parties. To carry out this study, quantitative and qualitative methods were combined. The analyzed data for the local election from 1996 to 2020 focus on the studied area-North East Region which has the highest level of female mayors when compared with the others. The results show an under-representation of women in local government with a percentage of 6.34% female mayors, 1 percentage higher than at national level (5.33%). Moreover, 84.20% of administrative units have never had a female mayor. Also, the women's rates of success are lower (15.28% in 2020) when compared to their male counterparts (22.26%) (ROAEP).

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“…Thus, the presence of women in politics is equivalent to marginalization, and the difficult construction of solid legislation and law enforcement issues have made the women's presence even more complicated in this area. Of course, there is also the positive legacy of communism -a clear improvement in the status of women and a policy of equal opportunities, maintained in accordance with current legislation [8,9] (Gal, Kligman, 2003; Matei, Iațu, Vert, 2010). On the other hand, there was inherited the traditional mentality that the main duties of women are related to the birth, upbringing and education of their children [9] (Matei, Iațu, Vert, 2010) and the negative image of women promoted by the party that led to the projection of this image on women in post-December politics [4] (Ghebrea, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Equal Opportunities in Romanian Politics - Work in Progress. A Chronological and Spatial Analysis of Women's Participation in Political Life

Fedor¹,

Istrate²,

Iațu³

2021

Proceedings 2021

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The political parties play a unique and fundamental role within the democratic process and they can also play a significant role in what concern the opportunities to promote women in political structures. Thus, the present paper seeks to describe the way in which the main political parties supported the women's involvement within political life at local level (mayors) from 1996 till present. In order to realize the study, quantitative methods are going to be used, the data being collected from the official sites regarding the local elections. In this sense, there were analyzed the 1996-2020 databases that concern: the candidates, their parties and their gender, the winners and their parties, the voters' turnout. The results show that the percentage of female candidates proposed by the parties is slightly increasing, but it does not exceed the 10% threshold, a sign that gender equality is more accepted in theory than in practice. The study focuses on women candidates who have been nominated by parties to run, but also those who have won. Interesting are the situations by parties and two trends can be observed: large parties neglect the attention given to women, these being below the national average (PSD, PNL), and small or newly founded parties promote them to a greater extent.

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Romanian woman involvement in governance after 1990

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

The Need of Local Identity in Politics. The Case of Women Mayors in the North-East Region of Romania

The Need of Local Identity in Politics. The Case of Women Mayors in the North-East Region of Romania

Women’s Participation in the Local Government as Voters, Candidates and Mayors in the North East Region of Romania

Equal Opportunities in Romanian Politics - Work in Progress. A Chronological and Spatial Analysis of Women's Participation in Political Life

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