A Política de Quotas em Portugal: O papel dos partidos políticos e do feminismo de Estado
The so-called Parity Act was an important milestone in the promotion of gender equality in Portugal, due, amongst other things, to its impact upon an electoral system that the inertia of the party political system had been unable to change. Analyses of the appearance of quota policies in Portugal ha...
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
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| description | The so-called Parity Act was an important milestone in the promotion of gender equality in Portugal, due, amongst other things, to its impact upon an electoral system that the inertia of the party political system had been unable to change. Analyses of the appearance of quota policies in Portugal have not generally considered the role played by the main official mechanism for equality, the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality, and its networks. However, as Mona Lena Krook has pointed out, efforts to increase the number of women in political office have rarely occurred without the mobilization of women. This paper adopts the state feminism approach to explore the Commission’s decisive role in presenting feminist claims before the state (a role that has been systematically ignored), focusing on the way this mechanism as well as the women’s associations related to it have contributed to promote women’s participation in politics in Portugal. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b3c39adb29a24c6fa870ebb37700438b2022-12-22T03:39:49ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de CoimbraRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais0254-11062182-74352010-03-0192315010.4000/rccs.3953A Política de Quotas em Portugal: O papel dos partidos políticos e do feminismo de EstadoRosa MonteiroThe so-called Parity Act was an important milestone in the promotion of gender equality in Portugal, due, amongst other things, to its impact upon an electoral system that the inertia of the party political system had been unable to change. Analyses of the appearance of quota policies in Portugal have not generally considered the role played by the main official mechanism for equality, the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality, and its networks. However, as Mona Lena Krook has pointed out, efforts to increase the number of women in political office have rarely occurred without the mobilization of women. This paper adopts the state feminism approach to explore the Commission’s decisive role in presenting feminist claims before the state (a role that has been systematically ignored), focusing on the way this mechanism as well as the women’s associations related to it have contributed to promote women’s participation in politics in Portugal.http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/3953Parity Actquota policyCommission for Gender Equalityequal rightswomen and politicsPortugal |
| spellingShingle | Rosa Monteiro A Política de Quotas em Portugal: O papel dos partidos políticos e do feminismo de Estado Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais Parity Act quota policy Commission for Gender Equality equal rights women and politics Portugal |
| title | A Política de Quotas em Portugal: O papel dos partidos políticos e do feminismo de Estado |
| title_full | A Política de Quotas em Portugal: O papel dos partidos políticos e do feminismo de Estado |
| title_fullStr | A Política de Quotas em Portugal: O papel dos partidos políticos e do feminismo de Estado |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Política de Quotas em Portugal: O papel dos partidos políticos e do feminismo de Estado |
| title_short | A Política de Quotas em Portugal: O papel dos partidos políticos e do feminismo de Estado |
| title_sort | politica de quotas em portugal o papel dos partidos politicos e do feminismo de estado |
| topic | Parity Act quota policy Commission for Gender Equality equal rights women and politics Portugal |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/3953 |
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