Explain the gender quota laws with an example

What will be an ideal response?

Gender quota laws are rules that require that a certain proportion of candidates for office or legislative seats be reserved for women. For example, Rwanda passed a quota law after civil war and genocide in the early 1990s, because women represented almost 70 percent of the remaining population and women's groups were among the most important surviving civil?society organizations. Their influence and importance to Rwandan society at that time helped advance gender?equity changes to Rwanda's new constitution, including the quota law.

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When the American people feel that the federal bureaucracy has failed, the president acts as a ______ for public outrage.

a. shaking stick b. focal point c. lightning rod d. point of protest

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As discussed in the video Who's Afraid of Machiavelli, Machiavelli was really in favor of

a. inherited rule. b. republics. c. doing what is morally right when exercising power. d. recognizing the futility of trying to influence "Fortuna."

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