The Controversial Use of the Gender Quota in the 2021 Samoan General Election: A Personal Perspective – Part 1

The Controversial Use of the Gender Quota in the 2021 Samoan General Election: A Personal Perspective – Part 1

The first of this two-part In Brief series outlines the events that followed the 2021 Samoan general election and contextualises them in terms of gender norms in Samoa. Part 2 describes the gender quota that was passed by Samoa’s parliament in 2013 and used for the first time in the 2016 general election, as well as discusses its use (or misuse) in the aftermath of the 2021 general election.