Quotas for advisory committees, business and politics: Just more of the same?

Abstract

Nowadays, we can distinguish gender quotas targeting the political, the social and the economic spheres of society. Taking the Belgian case as an example, this article examines to what extent these different generations or groups of gender quotas differ intrinsically from each other. To this end, it analyses five generic gender quota laws adopted in the period 1990–2011 and the rationales underlying them. The analysis shows that the rules and underlying rationales do not differ fundamentally across the different spheres of society and that existing differences can mainly be explained by a factor of time.

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