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Sociology and Political Science Essay
Comparative Themes in Society, Politics and Culture

Question Title: What does this article (‘Real or illusory progress? Electoral quotas and women's political participation in Tanzania, Eritrea and Uganda') tell us about the link between gender equality in the electoral process and wider social and economic equality in the three African states it studies?

This article discusses much of the political impact that the introduction of quotas has had on the three African states that it case studies, Tanzania, Eritrea and Uganda but also manages to give examples of how these quotas may affect life in these states outside as well as inside the political sphere.
In my discussion of this article I will deal with the idea of quotas and the necessity for their involvement in African politics, the affects both positive and negative which they have had and finally the resulting wider social and economic equality that may have arisen due to......

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Approximate Word Count: 1550
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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