Over 80 countries have adopted legislative gender quotas to address women's underrepresentation in political leadership. This global dataset from 168 countries between 1990 and 2021 measures the spillover effects of quotas on women's presence in executive cabinets. The data was authored by Giulia Venturini and is hosted by The Journal of Politics Dataverse.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between legislative gender quotas and women's cabinet representation based on the global country-year panel.
- Compare quota effects between parliamentary and non-parliamentary democracies based on the described supply-side mechanism.
- Investigate changes in women's share of high- and low-prestige ministerial portfolios based on the findings mentioned in the description.
- Model the long-term trends in women's political representation post-quota adoption based on the 1990-2021 time range.
Strengths
- Covers 168 countries, providing a broad global scope.
- Spans over three decades of data from 1990 to 2021, enabling longitudinal analysis.
- Based on research finding a 15 percent increase in women ministers relative to baseline.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- The Journal of Politics Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official government records and legislative databases.
- Time Range
- 1990 to 2021
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-23 22:16:49; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Global (168 countries)