Abstract:
Women are not among the major users of existing governance indicators, primarily because the indicators are gender blind and not relevant to women's needs. Exceptions are the indicator on women's participation in parliaments maintained by the International Parliament Union, and the IDEA International database on electoral quotas for women. Both have been widely and actively used by women parliamentarians and women's political groups to support lobbying and advocacy to increase women's participation in national parliaments, often through the use of electoral quotas.
