Ana Espírito-Santo

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the proximate causes that led to the adoption of gender quotas by the Portuguese Parliament, and found that the law's passage was a direct consequence of a draft piece of legislation presented by the Socialist Party (PS), which enjoyed a majority.

TL;DR: In this paper, a double comparative framework is set to examine within country how legislative quotas affect political parties with dissimilar strategies to pursue equal gender representation, and analyse across countries how they impact on political parties under different institutionalized voluntary quotas.

TL;DR: Although the gender composition of assemblies is slowly changing in order to include more women, very little is known about citizens' attitudes towards women's descriptive representation as discussed by the authors, although the majority of women in assemblies are women.

TL;DR: Although the presence of women has been increasing in several parliaments around the world, we still do not know much about the consequences that their presence has for policy representation as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of key individual-level factors, namely expertise, seniority, and preferences in women's assignments to legislative committees was investigated, and the results showed that female and male MPs have a similar probability of being appointed to powerful and economic issue committees, but female MPs are more likely to be appointed to social issues regardless of expertise and seniority.