… In 2007, Spain adopted a law that obliges political parties to include at least 40% of women on every list for every election. Two features are … Party politics, gender quotas and women’s empowerment. International Political Science Review 35 (1), 2014, pp. …
… In brief CELEM, the Spanish coordinator of the European Women’s Lobby, wanted to find a way to ensure that the … were that were likely to be sympathetic to the cause of women’s equality. It established a database of these names, … The existence of the database has raised the profile of women’s issues in the press, especially on the front pages …