Legislation aims to increase number of women in decision-making roles such as in company boardrooms
in the world to legislate gender quotas for all electoral levels, setting out that candidate lists could not include more than two-thirds of candidates of either sex.
Announced in the lead-up to International Women’s Day on Wednesday, the proposed legislation still needs to be voted on by Spain’s parliament. But in a year replete with elections – municipal, regional and general – the initiative is a nod to how the governing Socialist party is aiming to position itself on women’s rights.
“If women represent half of society, then half of the political power and half of the economic power must belong to women,” the Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said on Saturday as he announced the legislation. “There will be people who find this irritating and even absolutely disproportionate,” he added. “But we think it is justice, plain and simple.”
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