This book studies the adoption and diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond. Gender quotas are institutional mechanisms intended to increase the proportion of women rapidly and effectively in key decision-making political posts. Since the 1980s, gender quotas have been implemented in various governmental bodies and, more commonly, in legislatures. Starting in Northern Europe, these policies have expanded to other European countries and later to thirteen Latin American countries. Yet, whereas gender quotas in most European countries - with the exception of Belgium and France - have been adopted voluntarily by some political parties, in Latin America national legislation mandates all parties to include in their lists a quota for women candidates to legislatures. Although recent scholarship on gender quotas has been devoted to the adoption of gender quotas in a variety of countries, little has been done on Central and South America, despite the fact that the legislative «quota wave» originated there. Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond remedies that situation and provides a rich comparative analysis of this policy proliferation in Latin America as well as outside this region by also examining the adoption of legislative quotas in Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia.
Report of the Human Rights Commissioner on Certain Provisions of the Tasmanian Criminal Code
It also provides a useful collection of documents and overview of the law for policy makers.This book is part of the Context and Practice Series, edited by Michael Hunter Schwartz, Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic ...
How Equality Rights May Expand the Scope of Expression for Homosexual Pornographic Speech [microform]: a Modified Freedom of Expression Test
Gender, Law and Justice
The present study involved a quantitative assessment of the access to justice and legal needs of socially and economically disadvantaged communities in New South Wales.
Women's rights activist and author, Joy Brighton, provides bullet point chapter summaries and green "insight boxes" to help readers connect the dots.This book is written for busy Americans who are concerned that political correctness is ...
"This booklet aims to help you (i.e. the lesbian and gay couples) understand your rights. It won?t answer every question, but it will give you an idea of how to organise your (i.e. the lesbian and gay couples') affairs.
The book covers the following topics: rational basis review, racial classifications, the different tiers of review, gender classifications, classifications affecting nonmarital children, classifications of aliens, classifications on the ...
Pour la première fois, des experts de la matière proposent une mise en perspective du droit du travail européen avec, en toile de fond, le contexte de la crise bancaire, économique et budgétaire.
Gender Law and Policy