: IPS Gender Wire 9-21-10

Quotas Alone Won't Give Women Equal Power

By Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, Sep 22 , 2008 (IPS) LA

Nlida "Mujeres y Poltica en Amrica Latina. Sistemas electorales y cuotas de gnero" (Women and Politics in Latin America: Electoral Systems and Gender Quotas), Archenti, :

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MDGs 2008 (or single

chamber) 11.9% 1990 22.2%

10 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru Chile and Uruguay Michelle Bachelet 15.8% 5.2% 1999 11 10%

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affirmative action 1980s 1991

30%

Archenti, a professor at the University of Buenos Aires

5.4% 1991 35.4% 2005 4% 43%

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1998 Clara Araujo 14%

1993 .

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affirmative action 1932

5 Bachelet (Augusto Pinochet)

(2000-2006)

"binominal"

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43953

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"Quota Laws Have Been Very Successful" in Latin America Daniela Estrada interviews MARCELA ROS,

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SANTIAGO, Apr 22, 2009 (IPS) (gender empowerment)

editor of a book on gender quotas

(Marcela Ros) ()

- 250 : 15 (FLACSO) IDEA). (International

Affirmative action

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: : 20% 18% : :

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: 16 10 20 40% : affirmative action

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affirmative action

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: :

:

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-- 5-7% /

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: affirmative action

(elites)

(meritocracy)

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meritocracy

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affirmative action

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46593

CHILE First Woman President Scores Points on Gender Front By Daniela Estrada* SANTIAGO, Mar 2, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) - When Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as its first woman president in 2005, thousands of women celebrated the historic victory as their own personal triumph, proudly marching in the streets wearing mock presidential sashes. Today, men and women both recognise the concrete and symbolic progress achieved in gender issues under her administration. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50511

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POLITICS-CHILE Women Assess Bachelet's Record By Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Apr 5, 2007 (IPS) - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is being showered with criticism from both left and right over her ability to govern. But she is being unfairly condemned for the mistakes of others, like the crises affecting parties in the governing coalition and "machista" or male chauvinist attitudes that exaggerate her every slip, Chilean women say. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37226

Women Make Their Mark on South American Politics By Marcela Valente* BUENOS AIRES, Sep 16, 2010 (IPS) - If Brazilian voters elect a woman president next month, what might have appeared to be isolated developments in Chile and Argentina would start to look more like a trend in the southern countries of South America. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52861

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