The Puzzle of Chile's Resilient Support for Gender Parity

Reyes-Housholder, Catherine; Suarez-Cao, Julieta; Arce-Riffo, Javiera

Abstract

Chile's 2021-22 Constitutional Convention was the first in the world to feature mechanisms that guaranteed gender parity among constituents (Arce and Suarez-Cao 2021). This was not an easy win. Feminist activists and women politicians pushed for gender parity in 2020-21 in a country that had adopted gender quotas relatively late (Figueroa 2021; Reyes-Housholder, Suarez-Cao, and Le Foulon 2023; Suarez-Cao 2023; personal interview #1, April 21, 2023). Reserving seats for Indigenous groups and using other mechanisms to allow space for independent constituents further broadened the convention's ostensible inclusiveness. After the September 2022 rejection of the 2021-22 Constitutional Convention's draft, political parties immediately started over by crafting an elite-controlled process. Lawmakers-this time with surprising speed-again coalesced around the idea that an equal number of men and women should write the new draft.

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Título según WOS: The Puzzle of Chile's Resilient Support for Gender Parity
Título de la Revista: PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS
Volumen: 57
Número: 2
Editorial: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Fecha de publicación: 2024
Página de inicio: 263
Página final: 266
DOI:

10.1017/S1049096523000811

Notas: ISI