عنوان

Whose Seat will become Reserved?

شماره

LA107118

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Whose Seat will become Reserved?

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Aisha Fofana Ibrahim

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Post-war reconstruction efforts in Sierra Leone combined with global discourses around issues of democracy and participation have, to some extent, created a space for political engagement of traditionally marginalized groups, including women. Women's political engagement has, in recent times, centered around a campaign for a 30% constitutionally mandated gender quota system which, it is believed, will be the most effective way to get more female representation in legislatures as well as close the wide gap that exists numerically between both genders in the public sphere. This paper seeks to examine women's engagement with political processes in Sierra Leone, their long and unsuccessful struggle for a quota system and how all of this fits into a wider struggle for gender justice in Sierra Leone. The main argument raised in this paper is that the gender quota campaign is fraught with challenges because women in the struggle, especially female parliamentarians, have found it difficult to go beyond the borders of their political parties' ideological stance, and organizational boundaries to collectively and successfully advance the campaign. In addition, the campaign seems to be more centralized in the capital with little or no engagement at the community level. Moreover, because of the widening political divide, meaningfully engaging an elite male cadre that has variedly resisted women's full and equal participation in the public sphere remains a challenge. Post-war reconstruction efforts in Sierra Leone combined with global discourses around issues of democracy and participation have, to some extent, created a space for political engagement of traditionally marginalized groups, including women. Women's political engagement has, in recent times, centered around a campaign for a 30% constitutionally mandated gender quota system which, it is believed, will be the most effective way to get more female representation in legislatures as well as close the wide gap that exists numerically between both genders in the public sphere. This paper seeks to examine women's engagement with political processes in Sierra Leone, their long and unsuccessful struggle for a quota system and how all of this fits into a wider struggle for gender justice in Sierra Leone. The main argument raised in this paper is that the gender quota campaign is fraught with challenges because women in the struggle, especially female parliamentarians, have found it difficult to go beyond the borders of their political parties' ideological stance, and organizational boundaries to collectively and successfully advance the campaign. In addition, the campaign seems to be more centralized in the capital with little or no engagement at the community level. Moreover, because of the widening political divide, meaningfully engaging an elite male cadre that has variedly resisted women's full and equal participation in the public sphere remains a challenge.

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

61-84

عنوان

African and Asian Studies

شماره جلد

14/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-2108

اصطلاح موضوعی

gender equality

اصطلاح موضوعی

quotas

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sierra Leone

اصطلاح موضوعی

women legislators

اصطلاح موضوعی

women's activism

اصطلاح موضوعی

women's political activism

اصطلاح موضوعی

women's political leadership

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Aisha Fofana Ibrahim

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15692108-12341330

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y