Indigenous women in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia have made significant progress in gaining greater political voice and taking part in deliberations on norms and rules both within their community-basedgovernance systems as well as in national political institutions. As we discuss in this chapter, strategies to improve indigenous women’s voice and norm-making powers in community-based governance systems in the Andes may involve context-specific languages and frames emphasizing “complementarity” as well as or in contrast to claims for gender equality or parity. We argue that these forms and strategies of claiming voice and greater women’s participation within indigenous governance systems should be seen as complementary to national approaches for advancing gender equality, rather than in conflict with them.

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With Anna Barrera Vivero, in Ruth Rubio-Marin and Will Kymlicka (eds), Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York (2018): 238-272. ISBN: 978-0-19-882962-1