The Gender Quota and the Experience of the Women Political Activism in Georgia

Eka Darbaidze

Abstract


Gender equality is closely linked to the sustainable development of the country and  is a necessary condition for the universal realization of human rights. Achieving gender equality in the political area is one of the central issues of gender equality. The low involvement of women in political life is equally characteristic for both” - Developed Democracies and New Democracies, includingGeorgia.

We are interested in studying the political participation of women inGeorgiaand determining how effective are the new electoral system and the "gender quota" mechanism for increasing women's representation. When and how was the gender quota adopted and does it give us or not the optimistic outlook about increasing the number of women. One of the main tasks of the paper is also to identify the factors hindering political participation and to develop effective policy alternatives aimed to eliminate gender differences in order to understand the main causes of the problem of under-representation of women in Georgian Parlament.

It would take decades for women to achieve equal political participation inGeorgiain a natural way, that’s why to speed up the process and eliminate a gender inequality, in 2020 Parliament of Georgia supported the establishment of a legislative gender quota. We are interested in studying the political participation of women inGeorgiatoday.

One of the main tasks of the paper is also to identify the factors hindering political participation and to develop effective policy alternatives, wich aimes to eliminate gender differences, in order to understand the main causes of women’s under-representation in politics.

 

 

 

 

 


Keywords


Women’s Participation in Politics; Women in Georgian Parliament; Women MPs; Gender Quota; Georgia

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