Women, Politics and Quotas in Southeast Europe

This report shows that while quotas are certainly important for giving women better chances to enter politics, women still face meaningful obstacles in making their contribution substantive and meaningful. Beyond just increasing the number of women in office, there is the issue of supporting them to represent the interests of a gender equality agenda and a gender equality constituency. The focus of future advocacy and lobbying needs to be supporting the meaningful representation of a range of women’s interests in the decision-making structures of the countries of SEE.