(IN)VISIBLE WOMEN IN POLITICAL LIFE IN SLOVAKIA

• Authors: Bitusikova A.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the questions of the (in)visibility of women in Slovak political life. The material presents statistical data on women's participation in Slovak national, regional and local politics with the support of qualitative data from interviews with women politicians and activists. The authoress looks at the reasons for the low political representation of women and the unsuccessful attempts to increase it by introducing positive mechanisms such as quotas. The primary focus is put on the representation of women in municipal politics. The authoress analyses the main reasons why women are more successful in local politics than in 'high' politics.

Keywords

EN

GENDER; WOMAN IN POLITICS (SLOVAKIA)

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1005-1021
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bitusikova A.

• A. Bitusikova, Matej Bel University, Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici, Tajovského 10, 975 90 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA03096389