One Size Does Not Fit All: Lessons Learned from Legislative Gender Commissions and Caucuses
Categories: Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Political Transitions
Country: Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador,Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Year: 2010
Citation: Gonzalez, Keila and Kristen Sample. One Size Does Not Fit All: Lessons Learned from Legislative Gender Commissions and Caucuses. Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 2010. Accessed December 6, 2016.
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Political Transitions
Country: Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador,Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Year: 2010
Citation: Gonzalez, Keila and Kristen Sample. One Size Does Not Fit All: Lessons Learned from Legislative Gender Commissions and Caucuses. Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 2010. Accessed December 6, 2016.
Abstract
This report collects and organizes information on strategies for women to better obtain influence in parliaments. It provides ideas that Latin American legislators– both women and men– can use to promite their gender equality agenda more effectively, thus ensuring that gender is a constant elements in the debate and agendas, and that it becomes an essential component of all legislation.