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Explicating Politicians' Arguments for Sex Quotas in Sweden: Increasing Power and Influence Rather Than Increasing Quality and Productivity

Sweden · Umea · National · See the Sweden profile

Quotas are employed or proposed in several European countries as a means to decrease differences in outcomes across groups. Quotas belong to a family of biased selection and treatment measures based on group membership, rather than individual ability. The effects of such measures

40 %
Proposed minimum share of women under discussed sex-quota policy
Explicating Politicians' Arguments for Sex Quotas in Sweden: Increasing Power and Influence Rather Than Increasing Quality and Productivity

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Promoter
Madison Guy — website
Power domain
Political Power
Methods / tools
Gender Training, Awareness-raising, Benchmarking
Region (NUTS)
SE33
Keywords
academia, business world, gender politics, legislation, politics, quotas, sex equality, Sweden

Context

This study applies thematic analysis to statements by Swedish politicians and officials arguing for legislated sex quotas, examining the underlying (and often inconsistent) claims about ability, meritocracy and organisational quality.

Results

The analysis finds that proponents call for raising women's representation to at least 40% via quotas rather than improved meritocratic assessment, and argues this suggests quotas aim to increase a group's influence rather than organisational quality or productivity.

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