Gender in San Juan politics:

Recent history and subnational legislative representation (Province of San Juan, Argentina, between the late 20th and early 21st centuries)

Abstract

 This research paper addresses, from a historical approach with a gender perspective, the recent process of debate and enactment of the Women’s Quota Law in local electoral and legislative lists along with the descriptively female parliamentary representation in the Province  of San Juan, Argentina, between 1983 and 2011. Throughout its development, it was possible to describe the provincial political conditions of San Juan’s recent past as background to the time of its enactment. It was also possible to analyse the different electoral quota proposals presented at the time of their legislative treatment. In addition, we compared the results in the composition of different legislatures, before and after the enactment of the law, in order to observe its effects. A mixed methodological design was applied with specific collection, organisation and processing techniques. Qualitative documentary observation was used qualitatively, and quantitative analysis of the statistical data was used quantitatively. The main heuristic resources used came from local, bibliographic, newspaper and official documentary repositories.