Gender Quotas

We are all women and if we want to change something, we must stand in solidarity with women who works to fight violence against women. 

Currently, we are working on another version of the bill. The new project will introduce gender-based quotas for both lists: majoritarian as well as proportional one. 

"Even if we introduce gender-base quotas, political parties will not promote women immediately. A month or even two weeks prior to elections, a certain number of people, selected by the party leader, will appear on the list and women will be just among them."  

Discussions about representation crisis in the Georgian Parliament has been increased among advocacy groups during the recent years. I claim, that these discussions lacked normative rethinking of the following: Why should women be represented in the parliament? And what threats does their invisibility imply for the democracy?  

Article discusses different aspects of gender-based quotas and questions it. Full article is available only in Georgian.

Public debate. Language: Georgian.  

"When the issue of gender-based quota was firstly raised in parliament, MP’s burst out laughing. Today, it is a topic of discussions, everyone has to speak with arguments – no one can just laugh now”.

Language of the article: Russian. Article analyzes representation of women in the parliament of Armenia and reasons of failure of gender-based quotas.

Master of Political Science. Research Interests: Women’s political participation, women rights, political polling, political party building, corporate social responsibility.

In a reality where male priviledge is what defines success in politics, establishment of gender quotas will improve quality of politics. Read in Georgian