Slovenia: Implementing gender quotas and their success after 20 years

In our presentation we will focus on the process of adoption and implementation of gender quotas for parliament election in Slovenia from the 1990s on. We will present the importance of the mayor institutional factors at play as political, cultural and institutional (political parties, electoral system, the role of NGOs and prevailing political culture) in the process of accepting gender quotas and will especially thematize the unwillingness to accept them. We will ask, what kind of resistances we were facing in the different stage of the implementation process and who were the main agents in this process. As the process of the adoption of gender quotas in politics at all levels is successfully concluded and put in place in Slovenia, we are convinced that we should make a step forward in analyzing the implementation, evaluation, and impact of this policy measures on presence and representation of women in politics and its effect on advancement or crisis of democracy in this CEE state.