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Pacific Women in Politics - Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands (Hardcover)
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Pacific Women in Politics - Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in the Contemporary Pacific
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Women are significantly underrepresented in politics in the Pacific
Islands, given that only one in twenty Pacific parliamentarians are
female, compared to one in five globally. A common, but
controversial, method of increasing the number of women in politics
is the use of gender quotas, or measures designed to ensure a
minimum level of women's representation. In those cases where
quotas have been effective, they have managed to change the face of
power in previously male-dominated political spheres. How do
political actors in the Pacific islands region make sense of the
success (or failure) of parliamentary gender quota campaigns? To
answer the question, Kerryn Baker explores the workings of four
campaigns in the region. In Samoa, the campaign culminated in a
"safety net" quota to guarantee a minimum level of representation,
set at five female members of Parliament. In Papua New Guinea,
between 2007 and 2012 there were successive campaigns for nominated
and reserved seats in parliament, without success, although the
constitution was amended in 2011 to allow for the possibility of
reserved seats for women. In post-conflict Bougainville, women
campaigned for reserved seats during the constitution-making
process and eventually won three reserved seats in the House of
Representatives, as well as one reserved ministerial position.
Finally, in the French Pacific territories of New Caledonia, French
Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna, Baker finds that there were
campaigns both for and against the implementation of the so-called
"parity laws." Baker argues that the meanings of success in quota
campaigns, and related notions of gender and representation, are
interpreted by actors through drawing on different traditions, and
renegotiating and redefining them according to their goals,
pressures, and dilemmas. Broadening the definition of success thus
is a key to an understanding of realities of quota campaigns.
Pacific Women in Politics is a pathbreaking work that offers an
original contribution to gender relations within the Pacific and to
contemporary Pacific politics.
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