Explain the gender quota laws with an example. What will be an ...

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Explain the gender quota laws with an example.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following factors is most likely to have led to the sanction of the present family law code in Tunisia?
 
  A. Most Tunisian tribal leaders wanted to maintain the existing traditional legal system
  in which they dominated local politics.
  B. The postcolonial political elite were cohesive and closely allied with the traditional
  tribes, whose leaders were all men.
  C. The rulers wanted to please their conservative supporters to ensure that they stay in
  power.
  D. Tunisian political elites did not depend on the country's conservative tribes and
  actively sought to undermine them.
  E. Violent battles between reformists and conservatives continued long after
  independence in Tunisia, but eventually the conservatives gained a decisive victory.

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Answer to Question 1

Gender quota laws are rules that require that a certain proportion of candidates for office or legislative seats be reserved for women. For example, Rwanda passed a quota law after civil war and genocide in the early 1990s, because women represented almost 70 percent of the remaining population and women's groups were among the most important surviving civilsociety organizations. Their influence and importance to Rwandan society at that time helped advance genderequity changes to Rwanda's new constitution, including the quota law.

Answer to Question 2

D