{"id":55,"date":"2005-09-27T07:53:51","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/2005\/09\/27\/womens-political-representation-in-peru\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:09:21","slug":"womens-political-representation-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/2005\/09\/27\/womens-political-representation-in-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s political representation in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idea.int\/\">International Institute for democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)<\/a>, the levels of women\u00b4s political representation in Peru remain below the country\u00b4s 30% quota target, notwithstanding advances in the last decade:<br \/>\n&#8211; women account for 22% of  Peruvian elected officials, with great variation between levels and positions;<br \/>\n&#8211; one of every six (18%) of Peru\u00b4s national legislators are women;<br \/>\n&#8211; less than 3% of Peru\u00b4s mayors are women.<br \/>\n&#8211; women make up 26% of municipal council members.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idea.int\/americas\/peru\/lima_workshop.cfm\">Women, Political Parties and Electoral Reform in Peru<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study by the International Institute for democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), the levels of women\u00b4s political representation in Peru remain below the country\u00b4s 30% quota target, notwithstanding advances in the last decade: &#8211; women account for 22% of Peruvian elected officials, with great variation between levels and positions; &#8211; one of every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7952],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/peru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}