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MEDIDAPRIORITARIA48
“Fulfil the commitment to increase and enhance opportunities for the equal participationof women inadoptingand implementingpolicies
in all spheres of public authority and in high-level decision-making.”
Possible lines of action
Promulgate and apply legalmeasures, includingquota systems, toachieveparity indecision-makingpositions in all areas of publicpower.
Target
Equal participation bymen andwomen in the three branches of government.
Tentative indicators
1. Percentage ofwomen inministerial positions; 2. Percentage ofwomen in the principal legislative body; 3. Percentage ofwomen judges
in the highest court of justice; 4. Proportion ofmunicipal and local council seats held bywomen.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
Santo Domingo Consensus. In general, chapter E, “Gender equality and the empowerment of women for political participation in
decision-making”, and more specifically agreement 101, “
Ensure that women have equal access to decision-making positions in all
branches of government and in local governments, through legislative and electoral initiatives and measures that guarantee parity of
representation in all political spheres and a commitment to strategic agendas to achieve parity in political participation and gender
parity as aState policy
.”
Brasilia Consensus, agreement 3.d: “[
P]romote the creation of mechanisms which ensure women’s political partisanship and
participation and which, as well as parity in candidate registers, ensure parity of outcomes, equal access to campaign financing and
electoral propaganda, and women’s participation in decision-making within party structures, and support such mechanisms where they
already exist; inaddition, createmechanisms to sanctionnon-compliancewith legislation in this area
.”
Quito Consensus, agreement ii:
“[A]dopt all necessary affirmative actionmeasures andmechanisms, including the necessary legislative
reforms and budgetary allocations, to ensure the full participation of women in public office and in political representative positionswith
a view to achieving parity in the institutional structure of the State (executive, legislative and judicial branches, as well as special and
autonomous regimes) and at the national and local levels as anobjective for LatinAmericanandCaribbean democracies.
”
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination againstWomen (article 7), inwhich the States parties undertake to adopt
all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the country’s political and public life, and in particular to
guarantee women, on equal terms with men, the right, among others, “
to participate in the formulation of government policy and
implementation thereof
and “to hold public office and perform all public functions at all levels of government”;
and “
to vote in all
elections and referenda and to be eligible for election toall publicly electedbodies
”.
SDG target 5.5: “
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making
in political, economic and public life
.”
Comments
Together with PMs 51 and 52, PM 48 constitutes a group of prioritymeasures that seek to achieve equal participation for women in the
formulation and implementation of public policies and in high-level decision-making (PM 51) and to prevent, punish and eradicate
political and administrative harassment ofwomenwho reachdecision-making positions (PM 52).
