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In recent years, several countries have adopted measures such ascandidate gender quotas to increase women's presence in electoralpolitics. France adopted gender parity reforms - laws to ensureequal access to elected office for women and men - in 1999and 2000. What influence have these reforms had on women'spolitical representation?
In Parity Democracy, Jocelyne Praud and Sandrine Dauphinassess the evolution of France's gender parity reforms, fromtheir historical roots to their recent extension beyond the electoralsphere. Drawing on interviews with both parity advocates and opponents,as well as on key European and French legal documents, they show thatalthough parity reforms have not dramatically boosted women'srepresentation in the National Assembly, they have set in motion aprocess of feminization in the electoral sphere that bodes well for thefuture of parity democracy.
Contents
Introduction
1 French Women's Struggle for Political Rights and Parity
Part 1: Interviews with Parity Advocates andCritics
2 Women's New Cause: Gisèle Halimi
3 Equality in Difference: Monique Dental
4 Equality in the Political Sphere: Sylvie Ulrich
5 Favouring Equality of Opportunity in Politics: MichèleAlliot-Marie
6 A Voluntarist Measure to Achieve Equality: RoselyneBachelot-Narquin
7 An Extraordinay Measure to Overcome Men's ExtraordinaryResistance: Yvette Roudy
8 A Tool for Equality: Geneviève Fraisse
9 Affirmative Action Rather than Parity: Christine Delphy
10 Institutionalizing the Division of the Sexes: Eleni Varikas
Part 2: Founding Documents on Gender Parity inPolitics
11 Declaration of Athens, 3 November 1992
12 Manifesto of the 577 for Parity Democracy, 10 November 1993
13 Decree No. 95-1114 on the Creation of an Observatoire de laParité entre les Femmes et les Hommes, 18 October 1995
14 Charter of Rome, 18 May 1996
15 Manifesto of the Ten for Parity, 6 June 1996
16 Constitutional Law No. 99-569 on Equality between Women and Men,8 July 1999
17 Law No. 2000-493 to Favour Women's and Men's EqualAccess to Elected Office, 6 June 2000
18 Constitutional Law No. 2008-724 on the Modernization of theInstitutions of the Fifth Republic, 23 July 2008
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Chronology on French Women's Struggle forPolitical Rights
Appendix 2: Interview Guide
Notes
Bibliography
Index
