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Women in Politics: Portugal as a case study

Portugal · unspecified · National · See the Portugal profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 100% 3/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Democracy is about the power of people and women are majoritarian in society, therefore, they have been claiming for more rights and more representativeness in politics for a long time. After running for office, some have become political representatives only by merit and constan

Details

Promoter
Maria Sousa Galito (CESA/CSG/ ISEG) — website
Power domain
Political Power
Methods / tools
Monitoring
Keywords
politics, political power, deputies, ministers, democracy

Context

Working paper by Maria Sousa Galito (CESA/CSG, ISEG, University of Lisbon) on women in politics, framed around the argument that women — a majority of the population — have long claimed greater political rights and representation, achieved both through individual merit and persistence and through the legalisation of gender quotas and targets; Portugal is chosen as a case study because it has been comparatively under-researched on this topic.

Objectives

To analyse the main characteristics, causes and effects of the evolution of women's political empowerment, drawing on theory and international references and statistics, using Portugal as a case study.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)

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