"Do women matter for politics? Champions of women’s representation in the legislature believe that female politicians pass female-friendly policies. The research problem opposes essentialism to empirics. On the one hand, we cannot assume that female legislators represent universally-shared women’s interests. On the other hand, female legislators in the developing world are more likely to address children and families, gender equality, violence against women, and reproductive rights.
Argentina presents a most likely case for studying the effects of women’s presence. Women’s representation in the Congress has increased threefold since the implementation of mandatory gender quotas in 1991; women currently hold 36% of seats in the lower house and 43% of seats in the Senate. This paper uses an innovative approach to assess whether women matter, focusing on the entirety of the policymaking process." Source: UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Thinking Gender Papers. Paper TG08_Piscopo.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/csw/thinkinggender/TG08_Piscopo
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