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Women In Politics, the Desire to Reality - Equalities and Inequalities
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Author Information:
Name: Olívia de Carvalho & Elza Pais
Email: olivia@upt.pt
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-5277
Abstract:
Promote gender equality and the empowerment of women is one of the millennium development goals. In this sense, this article reflects, analyzes, and interprets the situation of women in politics, trying to identify the factors that promote or inhibit their participation. It also intends to evaluate the equality and inequality in the fields of policy decision and Economic Decision. The progress in the representation of women in the executive branch are even slower. In 2010, only nine of 151 elected heads of state and 11 of 192 heads of government were women and, globally, women hold only 16% of ministerial posts. The article focus on the identification of the factors that influence the political activity of women and propose ways to change this reality.
Keywords:
gender, equality, women participation, policy
Dates:
Oct. 4, 2016 - None
Source Specificity:
None, None, None
Website:
https://repositorio.upt.pt/entities/publication/7ecae072-dd98-4742-ac78-d2f7b1f01d10
Power Domains:
Social, Economic
Methods Tools:
Monitoring, Self-regulation, Benchmarking
Country:
PT
City:
unspecified
Implementation Scale:
international
Language:
Portuguese
Other Links:
http://hdl.handle.net/11328/2865 978-84-9012-850-3 https://repositorio.upt.pt/server/api/core/bitstreams/4dfce0d0-5e3e-4cd5-8c71-c00ae3f54ead/content
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