Global Study Finds Most People Want Gender-Balanced Government, Even if Quotas Are Needed

Global study finds most people want gender-balanced government, even if quotas are needed

Americans are deeply divided about the use of quotas in hiring and education, but quotas are used in many countries to assure a balance of power between men and women in legislative bodies. New research co-authored at UC Berkeley finds that when governments are gender-balanced, people believe the political process and policy outcomes are more fair and democratic.

Across Latin America, women have achieved important political success. But despite electoral victories, machismo has not disappeared, in part scholarship it provides cultural support in turbulent times.