This Seat is Taken: elections and the under-representation of women in seven Southern African countries

Written by Gender Links (Editor) | 25 January 11

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Achieving gender equality is one of the major challenges facing democratic governance in SADC. The countries surveyed in this book provide instances in which women's representation is significantly low. The contributions in this book consider the importance of gender equality in elections. Each contribution assesses the commitment of gender equality on the part of policy makers, law makers, political party leaders, electoral authorities and civil society in the country concerned. An overall opinion is that the achievement of gender equality is not a primary consideration and is often not taken into account at all. Each contributor advances country-specific findings, recommendations and strategies aimed at achieving gender equality.

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ISBN	978-1-920446-26-0
Publisher	EISA
Year of publication	2010
Physical Resource	Yes
Physical Location	GMDC Library
Place of Publication	South Africa
Classification No	324.968 SEA