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Vol. 39 No. 1 (2019)

Assessment of the Presence of Women in Subnational Cabinets of Argentina (1992-2016)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4067/s0718-090x2019000100023
Submitted
December 3, 2019
Published
2019-12-03

Abstract

What explains women’s inclusion in sub-national cabinet positions? While much of the existing literature has examined women’s appointments to national ministerial cabinets, scholars have not considered women’s access to provincial level cabinets. To address this gap, we adopt the conventional wisdom of a supply and demand approach to evaluate the findings at the subnational level. Using an original time series dataset from 1992-2016 across all 24 subnational jurisdictions, we find that demand factors are more relevant as the probability that women are appointed ministers increases when cabinets are larger, when there is a female governor, and when the governor belongs to a peronist coalition; conversely, a larger legislative contingent of the governor’s party decreases the probability of appointing women

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