“…This represented a decrease of 19.19 and 15.15 percent respectively in ten years. This is particularly striking because the number of women ministers and undersecretaries is significantly higher, reaching 45.65 and 38.71 percent, respectively, in the first government of President Michelle Bachelet (González‐Bustamante and Olivares, 2015, 2016), in line with the gender parity policies she promoted during her first term (Franceschet and Thomas, 2015). The subsequent evidence, however, indicates that these policies did not permeate lower hierarchical levels.…”