Gender and Representation in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Representation in Latin America write by Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer. This book was released on 2018. Gender and Representation in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America. Some countries have experienced large increases in gender equality in political offices, whereas others have not, and even within countries, some political arenas have become more gender equal whereas others continue to exude intense gender inequality. These patterns are inconsistent with explanations of social and cultural improvements in gender equality leading to improved gender equality in political office. Gender and Representation in Latin America argues instead that gender inequality in political representation in Latin America is rooted in institutions and the democratic challenges and political crises facing Latin American countries and that these challenges matter for the number of women and men elected to office, what they do once there, how much power they gain access to, and how their presence and actions influence democracy and society more broadly. The book draws upon the expertise of top scholars of women, gender, and political institutions in Latin America to analyze the institutional and contextual causes and consequences of women's representation in Latin America. It does this in part 1 with chapters that analyze gender and political representation regionwide in each of five different "arenas of representation"-the presidency, cabinets, national legislatures, political parties, and subnational governments. In part 2, it provides chapters that analyze gender and representation in each of seven different countries-Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. The authors bring novel insights and impressive new data to their analyses, helping to make this one of the most comprehensive books on gender and political representation in Latin America today.
Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America
Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America write by Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer. This book was released on 2010-09-30. Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women elected to national office is due, in large part, to gender-friendly electoral rules such as gender quotas and proportional electoral systems, and it has, in turn, fostered constituent support for representative democracy. Still, this book argues that women are gaining political voice and bringing women's issues to state agendas, but they are not gaining political power. Women are marginalized by the male majority in office and relegated to the least powerful committees and leadership posts, hindering progress toward real political equality. In Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer examines the causes and consequences of women's representation in Latin America. She does so by asking a series of politically relevant and theoretically challenging questions, including why the numbers of women in office have increased in some countries but vary across others; what the presence of women in office means for the way representatives legislate; and what consequences the election of women bears for representative democracy more generally. Schwindt-Bayer articulates a comprehensive theory of women's representation that analyzes and connects trends in relation to four facets of political representation: formal, descriptive, substantive and symbolic. She then tests this theory empirically using aggregate data from all eighteen Latin American democracies and original fieldwork in Argentina, Colombia and Costa Rica. Ultimately, this book communicates the complex and often incomplete nature of women's political representation in Latin America.
Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America
Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America write by Maxine Molyneux. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.
Inclusion without Representation in Latin America
Inclusion without Representation in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inclusion without Representation in Latin America write by Mala Htun. This book was released on 2016-01-14. Inclusion without Representation in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes how Latin American countries modified their institutions to promote the inclusion of women, Afrodescendants, and indigenous peoples.
Selecting Women, Electing Women
Selecting Women, Electing Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selecting Women, Electing Women write by Magda Hinojosa. This book was released on 2012. Selecting Women, Electing Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers an analytic framework to show how the process of candidate selection often limits the participation of women in various Latin American countries
