Yadav, Punam;
(2023)
Do Political Quotas Work? Gender Quotas and Women's Political Participation in Nepal.
European Journal of Politics and Gender
10.1332/251510821X16746560835644.
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Abstract
This article presents an investigation into the lives and lived experiences of women who joined politics through quotas. In particular, it explores the transformative potential of a quota policy through the ‘subject position’ of women politicians in Nepal, especially those who had no prior background in politics before being elected to their first political positions. Using Bourdieu’s theory of capital, I reveal how political quotas have strengthened women’s overall capital, allowing them to improve their position in both their families and society. Quotas have created new roles for women. The power and prestige attached to these new roles have not only offered some immediate changes to these women’s lives, but also led to changing perceptions of women in politics, shifting the discourse from a view of women’s participation in politics as an exception to one of it as an entitlement. This article is based on a qualitative study carried out with women politicians in Nepal.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Do Political Quotas Work? Gender Quotas and Women's Political Participation in Nepal |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1332/251510821X16746560835644 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1332/251510821X16746560835644 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright: © European Conference on Politics and Gender and Bristol University Press 2023. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | political quota; gender quotas; women in politics; political representation; political participation; Nepal |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164894 |
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