2024 International Women’s Day Lecture: Ana Catalano Weeks, “Lessons from the Fast Track to Women’s Inclusion in Europe:

Gender quota laws – policies that mandate women’s inclusion on parties’ candidate slates – have been adopted by over sixty countries worldwide. Quotas work as a “fast track” to increase women’s political representation, but do they also affect policy outcomes? In this talk, Dr. Ana Catalano Weeks uses evidence from the implementation of gender quotas in Europe to shed new light on the questions of when and how gender quota laws impact policy.