Gender sensitivity of the Serbian parliament: Mapping the power of women MPs

Mapping the power of women MPs in the Serbian Parliament, through the analysis of the membership and the leadership of the Parliament and parliamentary committees, indicates that women MPs dominate the socio-cultural cluster of the committees, as well as foreign affairs and European integration comm...

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Main Author: Vukomanović Dijana P.
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Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2021
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4adbdfcc36e34ecb8fe95c8aae2660062021-12-05T21:32:03ZGender sensitivity of the Serbian parliament: Mapping the power of women MPs0085-63202560-488010.5937/socpreg55-32434https://doaj.org/article/4adbdfcc36e34ecb8fe95c8aae2660062021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2021/0085-63202103624V.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/0085-6320https://doaj.org/toc/2560-4880Mapping the power of women MPs in the Serbian Parliament, through the analysis of the membership and the leadership of the Parliament and parliamentary committees, indicates that women MPs dominate the socio-cultural cluster of the committees, as well as foreign affairs and European integration committees. Women MPs are increasingly more visible in legislative-judiciary committees, while interior, defence and security affairs committees and minimally open to their membership. There is a growing trend of engaging women MPs in committees for ecology, then in trade and finance and, to a lesser extent, in infrastructure. Institutional gender sensitivity of the Serbian Parliament is still inadequate, and changes to the Rules of Procedure and the Code of Conduct are necessary in order to introduce gender-sensitive rules and procedures.Vukomanović Dijana P.Serbian Sociological Association, Belgradearticlewomen mpselection quotasgender sensitivity of the parliamentparliamentary committeesSociology (General)HM401-1281ENSociološki Pregled, Vol 55, Iss 3, Pp 624-649 (2021)
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topic women mps
election quotas
gender sensitivity of the parliament
parliamentary committees
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
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election quotas
gender sensitivity of the parliament
parliamentary committees
Sociology (General)
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Vukomanović Dijana P.
Gender sensitivity of the Serbian parliament: Mapping the power of women MPs
description Mapping the power of women MPs in the Serbian Parliament, through the analysis of the membership and the leadership of the Parliament and parliamentary committees, indicates that women MPs dominate the socio-cultural cluster of the committees, as well as foreign affairs and European integration committees. Women MPs are increasingly more visible in legislative-judiciary committees, while interior, defence and security affairs committees and minimally open to their membership. There is a growing trend of engaging women MPs in committees for ecology, then in trade and finance and, to a lesser extent, in infrastructure. Institutional gender sensitivity of the Serbian Parliament is still inadequate, and changes to the Rules of Procedure and the Code of Conduct are necessary in order to introduce gender-sensitive rules and procedures.
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title Gender sensitivity of the Serbian parliament: Mapping the power of women MPs
title_short Gender sensitivity of the Serbian parliament: Mapping the power of women MPs
title_full Gender sensitivity of the Serbian parliament: Mapping the power of women MPs
title_fullStr Gender sensitivity of the Serbian parliament: Mapping the power of women MPs
title_full_unstemmed Gender sensitivity of the Serbian parliament: Mapping the power of women MPs
title_sort gender sensitivity of the serbian parliament: mapping the power of women mps
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