http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200917-211406-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/electoral-quotas-for-women/ Electoral Quotas for Women - From ‘Are they constitutional?’ to ‘When are they constitutional? Díaz de Valdés, José Manuel eng 2020-07-27 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 gender equality parity parliament Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Electoral quotas for women (‘EQW’) have become a world trend, raising questions about their constitutionality in different legal systems. This short piece attempts to summarize some of the main issues involved in this debate and the courts’ approach to it. The text concludes by offering some general criteria to assess the constitutionality of EQW.