WGS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Occupational Segregation, Private Sphere, Nyabarongo River

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Women's & Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 220
• Professor: Smith

Document Summary

3+ parties prepare lists of candidates for election from each district. Seats are allocated roughly in proportion to the votes each party receives. Nonparty list/non-proportional representation systems are winner take all systems where there is usually only one seat per district and the person who gets the most votes wins. Pr systems in some regions of the country and a plurality/majority systems in others. Increasing the number of women representatives in parliaments and congresses. Zipper quotas: alternating of equal numbers of women and men on party electoral lists. A seating number of seats are reserved for women. Focus on women"s political literacy: paths to power. God sleeps in rwanda: a woman is speaking on how 7 of her children died and one survived. We hid during the day and came home at night. Killed my husband and 3 sons in front of me. I cannot count the men who came to rape me.