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Gender Quotas in Taiwan: The Impact of Global Diffusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2015

Chang-Ling Huang
Chang-Ling Huang*
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National Taiwan University
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Two things distinguish Taiwan from other Asian countries regarding women's political representation: a high level of female political representation by Asian standards and an early implementation of quotas by global standards. Women constitute 33.6% in the country's parliament, second in Asia only to East Timor (38.5%). Taiwan has also achieved a higher level of women's parliamentary representation than Japan (8.1%), South Korea (15.7%), and Singapore (23%). Unlike other young democracies that adopted gender quotas in the 1990s or even later, Taiwan has had reserved seats for women since the early 1950s when the country was under authoritarian rule. Quota reforms were later instigated subsequent to Taiwan's democratization.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 207 - 217
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2015 

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