How do you boost women's representation in government, ask Jay Euijung Lee and Martina Zanella? Simple gender quotas risk being gamed, for instance by parties fielding women in unwinnable constituencies. The key, they suggest, involves distinguishing between two different kinds of discrimination faced by women in political careers.

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27 November 2024

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LSE Inequalities

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2024/11/27/how-gender-quotas-are-challenging-political-inequality-in-south-korea/

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