This article was published on The Comparative Jurist, an international and comparative law blog founded in 2016. It mentions progress towards gender parity in the French legislative election, citing RepresentWomen's international research. Read an excerpt below:

Quotas on Trial: Constitutionality and Implementation

Even though the constitutions of many countries guarantee gender equality, and those same countries have made international commitments to the principle of women’s equal political participation, courts have had to grapple with questions over the constitutionality of gender quotas. While in Spain the Constitutional Court upheld the constitutionality of the quotas after their introduction in 2007, concluding that they serve a legitimate purpose of ensuring equal participation,^[7] in France the Constitutional Council overturned an electoral law that created an obligation for each electoral list for the Corsican Assembly to ensure the equality of women and men.^[8] The Council held that it was unconstitutional to require gender parity under the Electoral Code because “citizenship confers the right to vote and stand for election on identical terms for all who have not been excluded on grounds of age, incapacity or nationality . . . . and no distinctions may be made between voters and candidates on grounds of gender.”^[9] It was not until the adoption of constitutional amendments and a new electoral law the following year that quotas were put in place.  Both France and Spain saw increases in women’s representation in elected office following the introduction of quotas.^[10]

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