Institutionalizing Kurdish Women’s Political Engagements: Party Politics and Affirmative-Action Measures
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3 janvier 2023
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Hazal Atay, « Institutionalizing Kurdish Women’s Political Engagements: Party Politics and Affirmative-Action Measures », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.0a2c01...
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This article critically analyzes the pro-feminist and pro-gender stand of Kurdish politics within the larger male-dominated political landscape in the world in general and in Turkey in particular. Globally, even though the number of women in national parliaments has nearly doubled over the past two decades (Inter-Parliamentary Union 2016), politics systematically excludes women, thereby reproducing male hegemony. There is also significant variation in women’s political representation across regions. Whereas women’s presence in the parliaments of Nordic countries has reached 42 percent, thus approximating parity (equal representation), the Arab states and the Pacific lag behind dramatically, with women comprising only 18 percent and 16 percent of the legislatures in these areas (Inter-Parliamentary Union 2016). These figures also reflect the political participation of women in the Turkish Parliament, where women constituted only 17 percent of the members in 2018. In the absence of comprehensive efforts, political parties vary dramatically in their strategies with respect to gender equity. It is this larger context that makes the gender approach of pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey even more dramatic: whereas males politically hegemonize the Turkish political landscape, pro-Kurdish politics fosters the participation of large female cadres, thereby approximating parity, and articulates feminist claims on the political landscape, hence altering the political narrative in favor of women.
