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For an Experiment in Political Affirmative Action, Look to Taiwan

The island adopted quotas for women running for public office decades before other countries. The upshot? Today, few of them need quotas to get elected.

© Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

Su Chiao-hui campaigning for a mayoral post in Taiwan. Women hold 42 percent of Taiwan’s legislative seats, the highest share in Asia and comparable to Nordic countries.
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