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Quotas in Egypt: Understanding the Implementation and Discourse about Introducing Quotas for Women in the People’s Assembly between Women’s Groups, Members of Parliament and Political Parties from 2005-2012
Quotas for women in Egypt are controversial. The debate about quotas began in the 1970s and has exploded into current debates since January 25th, 2011. Quotas are one vehicle of increasing women’s political representation that became popular after the Beijing Platform for Acton was announced in 1995...
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