The trouble of a double gender gap in politics. What Lies beyond Women’s Descriptive Representation in Peru’s Congress (2016–2019)

This article examines Peru’s experience with gender quotas and how this mechanism has impacted women’s representation in Congress beyond mere numbers. Drawing on Pitkin’s (1967) multidimensional concept of representation, the study explores the substantive dimension on one hand, and on the other an...

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Autor principal: Slaviero, Veronica
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Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) IDES /CONICET 2025
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Political Representation, Marginalization, Critical Mass, Doble Gender Gap, Dissidence, Peru
representación política, marginalización, masa crítica, doble brecha de género, disidencia, Perú
Acceso en línea:https://www.estudiossocialesdelestado.org/index.php/ese/article/view/394
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Estudios Sociales del Estado de Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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spelling I15-R234-article-3942025-12-05T20:49:45Z The trouble of a double gender gap in politics. What Lies beyond Women’s Descriptive Representation in Peru’s Congress (2016–2019) La doble brecha de género en la política. El impacto de la cuota de género más allá de la representación descriptiva en el Congreso peruano (2016-2019) Slaviero, Veronica Political Representation, Marginalization, Critical Mass, Doble Gender Gap, Dissidence, Peru representación política, marginalización, masa crítica, doble brecha de género, disidencia, Perú This article examines Peru’s experience with gender quotas and how this mechanism has impacted women’s representation in Congress beyond mere numbers. Drawing on Pitkin’s (1967) multidimensional concept of representation, the study explores the substantive dimension on one hand, and on the other an intermediate dimension, that will be referred to as structural. The objective is to understand, on one side, how female legislators contribute their distinct perspectives across a range of policy areas and on the other, how they gain access to key political spaces, such as legislative committees. The analysis relies on two data sources: original interviews with thirty members of Congress conducted online during the COVID-19 pandemic, and secondary quantitative data from the 2016–2019 legislative period, at a Congress-level. The concepts of marginalization, horizontal and vertical segregation, and double gender gap serve as crucial analytical tools to reveal what remains invisible behind the growing number of women in Peru’s national parliament. Ultimately, the Peruvian case offers a critical reflection on Critical Mass theory, challenging its assumptions and highlighting the persistence of a dual gender gap in political representation. This study thus contributes to a more nuanced understanding of gendered power dynamics within legislative institutions and calls for more comprehensive approaches to evaluating women’s political inclusion beyond descriptive metrics. Este artículo se enfoca en la experiencia de Perú en materia de cuotas de género y la forma en que este mecanismo ha afectado la representación de las mujeres en el Congreso más allá de los números. A partir de la propuesta multidimensional de Pitkin (1967), el estudio se propone explorar la representación sustantiva y una dimensión intermedia, la estructural, para entender, por un lado, cómo las legisladoras aportan sus perspectivas diferenciadas para trabajar cualquier tema de su interés y, por otro lado, cómo ocupan espacios políticos claves como las comisiones legislativas.  Para ello, el análisis incluye tanto datos recopilados a través de entrevistas realizadas online durante la pandemia de COVID-19, donde participaron treinta congresistas, como datos cuantitativos secundarios a nivel del Congreso nacional (periodo legislativo 2016-2019). Las nociones de marginalización, segregación horizontal y vertical, y doble brecha de género resultan claves conceptuales de extrema importancia para comprender lo que se mantiene invisible detrás del creciente número de mujeres que participan en el parlamento nacional. La lección peruana, finalmente, nos permite reflexionar críticamente sobre la teoría de la Masa Crítica y detectar una doble brecha de género en la representación política. Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) IDES /CONICET 2025-12-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://www.estudiossocialesdelestado.org/index.php/ese/article/view/394 10.35305/ese.v11i22.394 Estudios Sociales del Estado; Vol. 11 Núm. 22 (2025) 2422-7803 spa https://www.estudiossocialesdelestado.org/index.php/ese/article/view/394/308
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topic Political Representation, Marginalization, Critical Mass, Doble Gender Gap, Dissidence, Peru
representación política, marginalización, masa crítica, doble brecha de género, disidencia, Perú
spellingShingle Political Representation, Marginalization, Critical Mass, Doble Gender Gap, Dissidence, Peru
representación política, marginalización, masa crítica, doble brecha de género, disidencia, Perú
Slaviero, Veronica
The trouble of a double gender gap in politics. What Lies beyond Women’s Descriptive Representation in Peru’s Congress (2016–2019)
topic_facet Political Representation, Marginalization, Critical Mass, Doble Gender Gap, Dissidence, Peru
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author Slaviero, Veronica
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title The trouble of a double gender gap in politics. What Lies beyond Women’s Descriptive Representation in Peru’s Congress (2016–2019)
title_short The trouble of a double gender gap in politics. What Lies beyond Women’s Descriptive Representation in Peru’s Congress (2016–2019)
title_full The trouble of a double gender gap in politics. What Lies beyond Women’s Descriptive Representation in Peru’s Congress (2016–2019)
title_fullStr The trouble of a double gender gap in politics. What Lies beyond Women’s Descriptive Representation in Peru’s Congress (2016–2019)
title_full_unstemmed The trouble of a double gender gap in politics. What Lies beyond Women’s Descriptive Representation in Peru’s Congress (2016–2019)
title_sort trouble of a double gender gap in politics. what lies beyond women’s descriptive representation in peru’s congress (2016–2019)
description This article examines Peru’s experience with gender quotas and how this mechanism has impacted women’s representation in Congress beyond mere numbers. Drawing on Pitkin’s (1967) multidimensional concept of representation, the study explores the substantive dimension on one hand, and on the other an intermediate dimension, that will be referred to as structural. The objective is to understand, on one side, how female legislators contribute their distinct perspectives across a range of policy areas and on the other, how they gain access to key political spaces, such as legislative committees. The analysis relies on two data sources: original interviews with thirty members of Congress conducted online during the COVID-19 pandemic, and secondary quantitative data from the 2016–2019 legislative period, at a Congress-level. The concepts of marginalization, horizontal and vertical segregation, and double gender gap serve as crucial analytical tools to reveal what remains invisible behind the growing number of women in Peru’s national parliament. Ultimately, the Peruvian case offers a critical reflection on Critical Mass theory, challenging its assumptions and highlighting the persistence of a dual gender gap in political representation. This study thus contributes to a more nuanced understanding of gendered power dynamics within legislative institutions and calls for more comprehensive approaches to evaluating women’s political inclusion beyond descriptive metrics.
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