How does women's political representation in places like Canada and Germany stack up to the U.S.?
about the impressive number of women judges who were sworn into office in Egypt this week:
Egypt’s State Council is an independent judicial body that largely handles administrative disputes, disciplinary cases and appeals. Germany uses a mixed-member proportional representation electoral system, which has been widely established as much more effective at achieving equitable representation than first-past-the-post or winner-take-all systems—those typically used in the U.S.
Secondly, all major parties in Germany have adopted gender quotas. Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union , has had a gender quota since 1996 that says at least one-third of their electoral lists and party officials should be women. They take it further in that, if this quota isn’t met, internal elections have to be repeated.
RepresentWomen advocates for long-term, structural solutions like setting recruitment targets, adopting ranked-choice voting and multi-member districts, and gender balanced appointments and replacement mandates. The Fair Representation Act was just re-introduced this past summer and includes many of these critical structural changes.
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