Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bachelet's Chile

Michele Bachelet, Chile's first female president, was elected with an explicit gender agenda in 2006 and then reelected in 2013. This volume focuses on Bachelet's efforts to introduce progressive measures and the constraints that she has faced in a context where both formal and informal political institutions can act as barriers to change.

Gabriela Alvarez Minte is researching for the PhD dissertation on the resistances to women's sexual and reproductive right in Chile at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. María de los Ángeles Fernández Ramil is currently the head of the Gender Unit in SEGPRES (Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia) in Chile. Susan Franceschet is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. Jasmine Gideon is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Carmen Sepúlveda-Zelaya is an ERC Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK, on the Understanding Institutional Change: A Gender Perspective Advanced Grant. Peter Siavelis is Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University, USA. Silke Staab works as a research specialist with UN Women. Gwynn Thomas is Associate Professor of Global Gender Studies in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA.