Abstract
Antić Gaber maps the political representation of women in Slovenian politics from the Yugoslav period through the present. Under socialism, she argues, women were a socially emancipated but politically marginalized group. After the first multi-party election in 1992, the share of women in the newly elected National Assembly dropped dramatically. In the 1990s, quotas were largely rejected as a solution to women’s under-representation. However, during the 2000s, numerous bills were proposed in parliament to impose gender quotas for European Parliament and later, parliamentary elections in Slovenia. This has increased the numbers of women in elected positions, changed attitudes towards women as leaders, and led to the diffusion of quotas to other spheres.
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Antić Gaber, M. (2019). Slovenia: From Socialist Legacies to Legislative Gender Quotas. In: Franceschet, S., Krook, M.L., Tan, N. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights. Gender and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59074-9_47
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