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Quotas Matter: The Impact of Gender Quota Laws on Work-Family Policies with Ana Catalano Weeks
Quotas Matter: The Impact of Gender Quota Laws on Work-Family Policies with Ana Catalano Weeks
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73 minutes
Released:
Apr 6, 2017
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Podcast episode
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Do gender quotas matter to policy outcomes, or are they just `window dressing'? In this seminar, Ana Catalano Weeks discusses her findings from one of the first studies of the relationship between quota laws and policy outcomes across countries. She argues that after a quota law, we should expect to see change on issues characterized by gender gaps in preferences, especially if they lie off the main left-right (class-based) dimension in politics -- like maternal employment. She finds that implementing a quota law increases public spending on child care (which encourages maternal employment) and decreases spending on family allowances (which tends to discourage it). Evidence from fieldwork in Portugal and Italy suggests that quotas work by increasing women's leverage within parties and raising the overall salience of gender equality issues with the public and male party elites.
Ana Catalano Weeks, WAPPP Fellow; College Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University
Ana Catalano Weeks, WAPPP Fellow; College Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University
Released:
Apr 6, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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