Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France
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Resumo: | In 1999, after a heated debate on gender parity in political representation, the French constitution was amended to include the principle of “equal representation” of both sexes. This paved the way for the introduction of gender quotas. In the same period, a bill providing reservations for women at the national level provoked a political crisis in India. The objective of this article is to compare both debates, looking in particular at the way women’s representation was framed. In France, the main argument against quotas was that republican representation should be unitary and transcend social differences, but at the end of the 1990s, women in mainstream politics were seen as one element of the dual nature of human kind, different from other categories such as class or race. In India, the specific representation of certain groups (Dalits, lower castes, tribal groups) had been the traditional framework for political representation since independence in 1947. But when the bill proposed to extend reservations to women, opponents of the project claimed that women did not constitute a category in themselves, and that sex should be intersected with caste and religion for the attribution of quotas. Looking at parliamentary debates, articles, and tribunes supporting or opposing quotas in both countries, we show that the arguments mobilized reveal different conceptions of the political representation of gender difference, which are partly transversal and partly specific to each country. |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and FranceFrance; gender difference; India; parity; political representation; universalism; women quotasIn 1999, after a heated debate on gender parity in political representation, the French constitution was amended to include the principle of “equal representation” of both sexes. This paved the way for the introduction of gender quotas. In the same period, a bill providing reservations for women at the national level provoked a political crisis in India. The objective of this article is to compare both debates, looking in particular at the way women’s representation was framed. In France, the main argument against quotas was that republican representation should be unitary and transcend social differences, but at the end of the 1990s, women in mainstream politics were seen as one element of the dual nature of human kind, different from other categories such as class or race. In India, the specific representation of certain groups (Dalits, lower castes, tribal groups) had been the traditional framework for political representation since independence in 1947. But when the bill proposed to extend reservations to women, opponents of the project claimed that women did not constitute a category in themselves, and that sex should be intersected with caste and religion for the attribution of quotas. Looking at parliamentary debates, articles, and tribunes supporting or opposing quotas in both countries, we show that the arguments mobilized reveal different conceptions of the political representation of gender difference, which are partly transversal and partly specific to each country.Cogitatio2019-09-24info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v7i3.2130oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2130Politics and Governance; Vol 7, No 3 (2019): Rethinking Representation: Representative Claims in Global Perspective; 124-1362183-2463reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/2130https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v7i3.2130https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/2130/2130Copyright (c) 2019 Virginie Dutoya, Yves Sintomerhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessDutoya, VirginieSintomer, Yves2022-12-22T15:16:28Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/2130Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:22:24.825969Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France Dutoya, Virginie France; gender difference; India; parity; political representation; universalism; women quotas |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France |
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France |
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Dutoya, Virginie |
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Dutoya, Virginie Sintomer, Yves |
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Sintomer, Yves |
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Dutoya, Virginie Sintomer, Yves |
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France; gender difference; India; parity; political representation; universalism; women quotas |
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France; gender difference; India; parity; political representation; universalism; women quotas |
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In 1999, after a heated debate on gender parity in political representation, the French constitution was amended to include the principle of “equal representation” of both sexes. This paved the way for the introduction of gender quotas. In the same period, a bill providing reservations for women at the national level provoked a political crisis in India. The objective of this article is to compare both debates, looking in particular at the way women’s representation was framed. In France, the main argument against quotas was that republican representation should be unitary and transcend social differences, but at the end of the 1990s, women in mainstream politics were seen as one element of the dual nature of human kind, different from other categories such as class or race. In India, the specific representation of certain groups (Dalits, lower castes, tribal groups) had been the traditional framework for political representation since independence in 1947. But when the bill proposed to extend reservations to women, opponents of the project claimed that women did not constitute a category in themselves, and that sex should be intersected with caste and religion for the attribution of quotas. Looking at parliamentary debates, articles, and tribunes supporting or opposing quotas in both countries, we show that the arguments mobilized reveal different conceptions of the political representation of gender difference, which are partly transversal and partly specific to each country. |
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