Friday, August 12, 2011

• QUOTAS


       QUOTAS
       If society was gender conscious there would be need for quotas for women.
       Quotas help women to enter politics in the same way as men.
       There are different kinds of quotas;
q  Constitutional quotas are placed under country constitution.
q  Legislation quotas are under election law, political party law or other comparable law of the country
Above mention quotas are enforced by sanction.
q  Voluntary party quotas are set by party themselves to guarantee the nomination of certain number & proportion of women.
It is not enforced by  sanction.
       Application of quotas
       Nomination process:
It place woman in the party list.
They are given the equal opportunities like male to be elected in legislative body.


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