Auteure: Hanane Darhour
Titre: Implementation of Electoral Gender Quotas. Evidence from the 2002 Moroccan Elections.
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012
Résumé: 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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