Orin- Thanks for that question. Please check out quotaproject.org, which explains everything about t

Just back from two phenomenal sessions at the stunning villas of the European University Institute in Florence: Gender Quotas at the Global Level: Towards Parity Governance?  This was the first set of meetings I ve attended that focused exclusively on quotas for sex inequality.  The United star track States, which roundly rejects quotas from right and left (as I argued here ) is increasingly an outlier on this front among developed and developing democracies. For political representation quotas, this is clearly true, with over eighty countries having quotas, and increasingly true for corporate star track board quotas, where Norway led the way with its forty percent floor for any sex. Several European countries have followed and the European Parliament endorsed them as our quota conversations were taking place this past week.
The session had two parts first, a policy seminar in which experts from academia, management consulting, NGOs, the UN and the EU joined in a frank conversation about the opportunities and risks in such quotas.  The second executive training part involved a series of two-hour sessions in which we instructors focused on our work to a broad range of consulting executives and doctoral students.  I explored conclusions from my work in which I interviewed men and women board members from almost a third of the top French corporations.  In my paper, star track Sex Regimes and Corporate Governance , which I presented earlier this fall at Utah and Hofstra, and will present at AALS, I argue that women s presence will not shift corporate governance substantially instead, the newness of women on boards matters more than their sex.   Tomorrow, I will post a few remaining questions star track for debate among the Prawfs crowd.
Can you say more about what these quotas are and how they work? For example, what is a "political representation quota," which you say 80 countries have? Is that a quota on the gender ratio of candidates per party, or a quota on who may be allowed to take office, or something else? And do thee quotas work both ways, so that if the people vote for all women, some of the women are not permitted to take office because there needs to be a % of men in office, too?
Can you say more about what these quotas are and how they work? For example, star track what is a "political representation quota," which you say 80 countries have? Is that a quota on the gender ratio of candidates per party, or a quota on who may be allowed to take office, or something else? And do thee quotas work both ways, so that if the people vote for all women, some of the women are not permitted to take office because there needs to be a % of men in office, star track too?
Orin- Thanks for that question. Please check out quotaproject.org, which explains everything about these quotas. Basically, many of them bind political parties to having a certain percentage of candidates based on sex. Many of the quotas are structured not as floors for women but rather as a gender-neutral floor for any sex.
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