IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/idsxxx/v41y2010i5p89-99.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Quotas: A Highway to Power in Egypt … But for Which Women?

Author

Listed:
  • Mariz Tadros

Abstract

Egypt has recently passed a new quota law, reserving 64 seats for women in addition to its 454 member parliament. While the executive regulations were not issued at the time of writing, the political messages conveyed about the quota are highly relevant: for example, additional seats were allocated rather than existing ones shared. This article speculates on whether the quota will challenge power hierarchies within and among parties. While the quota will undoubtedly increase women's representation in parliament, the political configurations of the existing context – a highly authoritarian one – raise questions as to which women are most likely to occupy these seats.

Suggested Citation

  • Mariz Tadros, 2010. "Quotas: A Highway to Power in Egypt … But for Which Women?," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(5), pages 89-99, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:41:y:2010:i:5:p:89-99
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/idsb.2010.41.issue-5
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:41:y:2010:i:5:p:89-99. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0265-5012 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.