The Struggle to Balance Gender Quotas and an Independent Judiciary in RwandaIn 2015 Rwanda ranked first in the world for women's representation in an elected lower house of parliament, moving from the position of 37th it held in 2000. TKamatali, JeanMarie...
Interventions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions strive to promote gender balance so that men and women have equal rights to participate in, and benefit from, decision-making about such interventions. One conventional way to achieve gender balance is to introduce gender quotas. Here we show that ge...
Closer to home, Rwanda’s government has taken the lead on the gender equity agenda, with a strong emphasis on challenging gender-based violence and encouraging girls to attend school. Bright spots of progress reflect this government support: Rwanda was the first country in the world to have ...
Gender quotas, democracy, and women's representation in Africa: Some insights from democratic Botswana and autocratic Rwanda The 'fast track' approach for increasing women's representation in politics through the adoption of electoral gender quotas has replaced the 'incremental a... G Bauer,JE Burne...
Gender has a powerful influence on people’s experience of, and resilience to, climate change. Global climate change policy is committed to tackling gender inequalities in mitigation and adaptation. However, progress is hindered by numerous challenges, including an enduring set of gender assumptions: ...
(2022) earlier proposed the putting in place of gender quotas for political positions. Also, there is need for the improvement of institutional governance, whose poor outcome has been a cankerworm to African development. This is through the intensification of the fight against terrorism and ...
Gender Equalityin International Institutions: Progress and Challenges in Moving Toward Gender Parity ByLyndsay B. Thompson The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda, for the first time in international law, recognized sexual violence in con...
Are quotas or targets an option? How do you manage unconscious bias in your company, including around promotion processes? Women in developing countries could be an estimated $9 trillion better off if their pay and access to paid work were equal to that of men.8 The additional output ...
Both the centre-right government and companies are in agreement that new laws are not required. Board quotas worked for the small number of public companies but turned out to be too blunt an instrument to tackle the executive problem. Strikingly, however, the private limited companies, which are...
The results show that, in both Rwanda and Burundi, the number of female political representatives significantly increased with the introduction of gender quotas, with their presence in parliament and ministries consistently exceeding 30 per cent. While women disproportionally end up in ministries of ...