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Defining Women's Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France
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Abstract In 1999, after a heated debate on gender parity in political representation, the French constitution was amended to include the principle of "equal representation" of both sexes. This paved the way for the introduction of gender quotas. In the same period, a bill providing reservations for women at ... mehr
In 1999, after a heated debate on gender parity in political representation, the French constitution was amended to include the principle of "equal representation" of both sexes. This paved the way for the introduction of gender quotas. In the same period, a bill providing reservations for women at the national level provoked a political crisis in India. The objective of this article is to compare both debates, looking in particular at the way women’s representation was framed. In France, the main argument against quotas was that republican representation should be unitary and transcend social differences, but at the end of the 1990s, women in mainstream politics were seen as one element of the dual nature of human kind, different from other categories such as class or race. In India, the specific representation of certain groups (Dalits, lower castes, tribal groups) had been the traditional framework for political representation since independence in 1947. But when the bill proposed to extend reservations to women, opponents of the project claimed that women did not constitute a category in themselves, and that sex should be intersected with caste and religion for the attribution of quotas. Looking at parliamentary debates, articles, and tribunes supporting or opposing quotas in both countries, we show that the arguments mobilized reveal different conceptions of the political representation of gender difference, which are partly transversal and partly specific to each country.... weniger
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
France; India; gender difference; parity; political representation; universalism; women quotas
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 124-136
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 7 (2019) 3
Heftthema
Rethinking Representation: Representative Claims in Global Perspective
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)