Abstract

LOMBARDO, Emanuela  and  VERGE, Tània. Gender Quotas in Politics and Corporate Boards: Regulation and Institutional Configuration in Spain. Polít. gob [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.2, pp.301-331. ISSN 1665-2037.

Gender quotas in politics and in corporate boards are significantly different in Spain regarding their degree of coercion, the time frame for their implementation, and the sanction for non compliance, indicating a strong regulation of the former and a weak regulation of the latter. To explain why different regulatory approaches were introduced, we adopt a feminist institutionalist approach that allows us to analyse the different institutional configuration underpinning the successive quota reform processes as well as the discursive strategies used by the key actors pushing for and resisting their adoption. Whereas quotas in politics followed a harmonizing sequence, in the case of corporate quotas the sequence was clearly disjointed.

Keywords : gender quotas; feminist institutionalism; political parties; corporate boards; Spain.