Measuring Women's Political Empowerment across the Globe Strategies, Challenges and Future Research /

This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women's political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women's political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Gender and Politics,
Subjects:
Identity politics.
Democracy.
Legislative bodies.
ISBN:9783319640068
ISSN:2662-5814
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to Measuring Women's Political Empowerment across the Globe: Strategies, Challenges and Future Research; Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl and Farida Jalalzai
  • Women's Political Empowerment through Public Opinion Research: The Citizen Perspective; Amy C. Alexander, Hilde Coffé
  • The Status of Women's Empowerment Worldwide; Senem Ertan, Catalina Monroy, Juan Pablo
  • Intersectionality and Women's Political Empowerment Worldwide; Melanie Hughes, Joshua Dubrow,
  • Social Movements as Women's Political Empowerment: The Case for Measurement; Kathleen Fallon, Heidi Rademacher
  • Women's Empowerment at the Local Level; Aksel Sündstrom, Lena Wängnerud
  • Electing Women to National Legislatures; Diana Z. O'Brien, Jennifer Piscopo
  • Legislatures as Gendered Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for Women's Empowerment as Political Elites; Catherine Bolzendahl
  • The Empowerment of Women in Diplomacy; Ann Towns, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Birgitta Niklasson
  • Measuring Women's Judicial Empowerment as Part of Political Empowerment; Sally J. Kenney
  • Women Cabinet Ministers in Highly Visible Posts and Empowerment of Women: Are the Two Related?; Tiffany Barnes, Michelle Taylor-Robinson
  • Women Heads of States and Government; Farida Jalalzai.-Conclusions and Future Directions; Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai.

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