Abstract:
Even where quota systems are in place, there has been slow progress in increasing women’s leadership in formal politics, suggesting that a range of complementary strategies, including incentives and enforcement mechanisms, are needed to address material and ideological relations of gender, and to make women’s physical presence and attendance translate into decision-making power. Have feminist strategies to engender democracy and governance, with particular attention to women’s political leadership, electoral quota systems, national gender policies and transformational leadership, effectively advanced women’s rights and gender equality in the Anglophone-Caribbean?
