POL 501 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
Document Summary
Serbia has allowed women to vote in the year of 1946. It was unclear when women were allowed to stand for office. Currently, approximately 20% of the parliament is comprised of female politicians. The percentage of females in the parliament is largely a result of the requirement to have a minimum of 30% women on the election tickets. Notable politicians include ljiljana colic who took the position as. Minister of education from march 2004 to oct 2004 and diana dragutinovic who was in the office as the minister of finance from july 2008 to march 2011. The right to vote and the right to stand for election is different things. In some countries, women get to stand for election before they got the right to vote. There"s a few patterns of representation: flat, percentage stayed the same overtime, no significant changes. Persistent negative image of women is a cause for this flat pattern: increasing countries.