RT Journal Article
T1 Pushing for Gender Mainstreaming: Women’s Presence and Alliances at the Local Level in Spain
A1 Ferrín Pereira, Mónica
A1 Paleo Mosquera, Natalia
K1 Local gender policies
K1 Gender mainstreaming
K1 Women’s presence and alliances
K1 Spain
AB A most important debate in gender representation studies revolves around whether women’s presence in politics correlates with the advancement of gender-equal policies, given the mixed results observed. In this article, the authors aim to contribute both theoretically and empirically to this debate by investigating whether distinct types of women’s presence/alliances have any differential impact on the promotion of gender mainstreaming at the Spanish local level. Our study shows a descriptive representation loop wherein the presence of women seems to attract more women into political positions. Importantly, the presence of women in local politics and the potential for them to form alliances between themselves has the ability to promote gender mainstreaming at the local level, albeit not all types of presence are equally effective. Our findings offer significant insights for reevaluating the connection between women’s political involvement and gender equality.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 1072-4745
YR 2025
FD 2025-08-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/43074
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/43074
LA eng
NO Mónica Ferrín Pereira, Natalia Paleo Mosquera, Pushing for Gender Mainstreaming: Women’s Presence and Alliances at the Local Level in Spain, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2025;, jxaf037, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaf037
NO This work was supported by the Spanish Government (MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033; grant MICIN-AEI PID2020-115568RB-I00). The financial institution had no role in the design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation of the data or in the writing of the paper.
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026