in states like puebla morales and veracruz where women hold less than of seats in the local congress there is not yet any provision for sanctions for noncompliance although quotas have proven to be effective at the state level in boosting women s representation in elected bodies parties in some states continue to disagree and argue that greater female participation in elected positions flouts party rights in such cases a party usually nominates female candidates in districts where it has little chance of winning in that way it is actually meeting the gender quota chief among them are negative attitudes to female politicians political harassment and violence and norms and values which consider that unpaid caregiving and housework is women s work a survey in found that of women believed that the sexual harassment of female political office holders indeed took place while claimed they had been sexually harassed in their work as legislators cerva cema