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Studying women's representation in legislatures is relevant because women's access to these bodies and their participation in decision-making are fundamental to realising the right to equal participation in democratic governance. It has been found that an increased female presence in legis...
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Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador)
2023
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| author | Hernández-Gutiérrez, José Carlos Cárdenas-Arguedas, Sol Cortés-Hernández, Ana Karen |
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| description | Studying women's representation in legislatures is relevant because women's access to these bodies and their participation in decision-making are fundamental to realising the right to equal participation in democratic governance. It has been found that an increased female presence in legislatures does not always lead to women's access to the most important working and decision-making bodies on an equal footing with men. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyse women's participation in the lower or single chambers of 17 Latin American countries from two dimensions of representation: descriptive and substantive. In order to study the latter type of representation, legislative committees are taken into account. It is found that a higher percentage of women occupying a seat does not always translate into women holding an equal proportion of committee chairmanships. It is also observed that women are predominantly the chairpersons of reproductive committees. It is concluded (1) that access to positions of political representation does not necessarily translate into equal access to positions of power within the legislative chambers and (2) that women occupy a smaller proportion of the most important committees, demonstrating that the strong and most powerful committees continue to be held by men due to the construction of politics and its exercise as androcentric. |
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| spelling | oai:revistas.ups.edu.ec:article-75862023-08-22T15:34:31Z From descriptive to substantive representation? Women and politics in Latin America ¿De la representación descriptiva a la sustantiva? Mujeres y política en América Latina Hernández-Gutiérrez, José Carlos Cárdenas-Arguedas, Sol Cortés-Hernández, Ana Karen Comisiones descriptiva gobernanza Latinoamérica mujeres política representación sustantiva Committees descriptive governance Latin America women politics representation substantive Studying women's representation in legislatures is relevant because women's access to these bodies and their participation in decision-making are fundamental to realising the right to equal participation in democratic governance. It has been found that an increased female presence in legislatures does not always lead to women's access to the most important working and decision-making bodies on an equal footing with men. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyse women's participation in the lower or single chambers of 17 Latin American countries from two dimensions of representation: descriptive and substantive. In order to study the latter type of representation, legislative committees are taken into account. It is found that a higher percentage of women occupying a seat does not always translate into women holding an equal proportion of committee chairmanships. It is also observed that women are predominantly the chairpersons of reproductive committees. It is concluded (1) that access to positions of political representation does not necessarily translate into equal access to positions of power within the legislative chambers and (2) that women occupy a smaller proportion of the most important committees, demonstrating that the strong and most powerful committees continue to be held by men due to the construction of politics and its exercise as androcentric. Estudiar la representación femenina en las asambleas legislativas es relevante porque el acceso de las mujeres a estos órganos y su participación en la toma de decisiones son fundamentales para hacer efectivo el derecho a participar por igual en la gobernanza democrática. Se ha constatado que una mayor presencia femenina en las asambleas legislativas no siempre conduce al acceso de las mujeres a los órganos de trabajo y decisión más importantes en igualdad con los hombres. Así, el objetivo de este artículo es analizar la participación de las mujeres en las cámaras bajas o únicas de 17 países latinoamericanos, desde dos dimensiones de la representación: descriptiva y sustantiva. Para estudiar este último tipo de representación se tienen en cuenta las comisiones legislativas. Se constata que un mayor porcentaje de mujeres ocupando un escaño no siempre se traduce en que éstas ejerzan en igual proporción las presidencias de las comisiones. También se observa que las mujeres ocupan, sobre todo, presidencias de comisiones de reproducción. Se concluye (1) que el acceso a cargos de representación política no se traduce necesariamente en el ingreso igualitario a puestos de poder dentro de las cámaras legislativas y (2) que las mujeres ocupan en menos proporción las comisiones más importantes, manifestando que las comisiones fuertes y que mayor poder representan siguen siendo para los hombres por la construcción de la política y su ejercicio como androcéntrica. Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador) 2023-10-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/pdf application/zip application/zip https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/7586 10.17163/uni.n39.2023.02 Universitas; No. 39 (2023): (September 2023-February 2024). Trends in contemporary public administration: new methodological and conceptual approaches to the modernization of the democratic state; 39-57 Universitas; Núm. 39 (2023): (septiembre 2023-febrero 2024). Tendencias de la administración pública contemporánea: nuevos abordajes metodológicos y conceptuales sobre la modernización del estado democrático; 39-57 1390-8634 1390-3837 10.17163/uni.n39. spa eng https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/7586/7267 https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/7586/7268 https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/7586/7269 https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/7586/7270 Derechos de autor 2023 Universidad Politénica Salesiana http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Hernández-Gutiérrez, José Carlos Cárdenas-Arguedas, Sol Cortés-Hernández, Ana Karen From descriptive to substantive representation? Women and politics in Latin America |
| title | From descriptive to substantive representation? Women and politics in Latin America |
| title_full | From descriptive to substantive representation? Women and politics in Latin America |
| title_fullStr | From descriptive to substantive representation? Women and politics in Latin America |
| title_full_unstemmed | From descriptive to substantive representation? Women and politics in Latin America |
| title_short | From descriptive to substantive representation? Women and politics in Latin America |
| title_sort | from descriptive to substantive representation? women and politics in latin america |
| url | https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/7586 |