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Friday, May 15, 2020
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Gender and COVID-19
WHO
Background Pandemics and outbreaks have differential impacts on women and men. From risk of exposure and biological susceptibility to infection to the social and economic implications, individuals’ experiences are likely to vary according to their...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Academic Paper / Article, Case Study, Data and Statistics
Resources on Gender-sensitive Responses to COVID-19
As the impact of COVID-19 intensifies globally, we have curated a selection of resources and information on gender-sensitive responses and women’s leadership in times of pandemic. You will find a list of relevant resolutions, useful tools, virtual...
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Monday, March 02, 2020
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Protecting political campaigns from digital threats
International Idea
Political campaigns online have demonstrated that they can help candidates win elections, include more citizens’ concerns in political debates or allow upcoming parties to gain political exposure. However, social media can also have a negative...
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
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Competitively elected women as policy makers
SSRN
While still far from parity, female representation in politics has continuously increased over the last two decades worldwide. In light of this development, we analyze whether higher female representation has substantive effects on policy choices...
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Friday, December 13, 2019
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Removing obstacles to women’s participation at the peace table and in politics
Women in International Security
Women who seek to participate in peace processes and political decision-making face many obstacles. To achieve sustainable peace and development, societies emerging from conflict must remove these obstacles. In so doing, they must recognize and...
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Thursday, December 05, 2019
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Politicians in the line of fire: Incivility and the treatment of women on social
Sage Journals
A seemingly inescapable feature of the digital age is that people choosing to devote their lives to politics must now be ready to face a barrage of insults and disparaging comments targeted at them through social media. This article represents an...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
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Women & Politics: Changing trends and emerging patterns executive summary
This collaborative report between, Lokniti a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung has attempted to look at women and politics from a multi-track perspective. While the assessment relied quite...
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Family law reform, employment, and women’s political participation in Ethiopia (Oxford University Press)
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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Family law reform, employment, and women’s political participation in Ethiopia
Oxford Academic
Research showing that there is strong correlation between increased female labor force participation and women’s political participation is essentially based on empirical data from Western, democratic, and developed contexts. In this article, we...
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Friday, November 08, 2019
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Women are more likely than men to leave politics after an early loss
UCLA Anderson Review
Americans elected more than 100 women to office in the 2018 midterm elections, but women still hold less than a quarter of the seats in Congress. Why are women so poorly represented? Theories include: women are less politically ambitious; there is a...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2019
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Women to the rescue: The gendered effects of public discontent on legislative nominations in Latin America
Sage Journals
Political parties act as gatekeepers, meaning that improvements in the representation of women depend on parties’ willingness to nominate women candidates. Previous research suggests that party characteristics and gender quotas largely explain women...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
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Maternal mortality and women's political participation
MedRxiv
Raising women’s political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9–12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also leads...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
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A gender perspective on role performance of elected panchayat leaders in India
Journal of International Women's Studies
Gender equality is fundamentally related to sustainable development, and globally accepted as a necessity for the promotion of human rights. Gender empowerment is determined by active participation of women and men in social, economic, and political...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
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Does exposure to gender role models increase women’s political ambition? A field experiment with politicians
Journal of Experimental Political Science
There is a persistent gender gap in motivations to run for political office. While exposure to role models is widely believed to increase women’s political ambition, there is little field experimental evidence on whether exposure to female...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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Gender equality and electoral violence in Africa: Unlocking the peacemaking potential of women
International Monetary Fond
IMF examines the impact of gender equality on electoral violence in Africa using micro-level data from the sixth round of Afrobarometer surveys. The sample covers 30 countries. IMF finds that gender equality is associated with lower electoral...
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Friday, July 05, 2019
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The cost of doing politics? Analyzing violence and harassment against female politicians
Cambridge University Press
Violence against women in politics is increasingly recognized around the world as a significant barrier to women’s political participation, following a troubling rise in reports of assault, intimidation, and abuse directed at female politicians. Yet...
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Friday, May 31, 2019
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Between glass ceilings and glass walls: A study of women's participation in public administration in the Arab States
. Journal of International Women's Studies,
Inclusive decision-making is necessary in terms of both legitimacy and good policy outcomes. Recognizing this, closing persistent gender gaps in public life has emerged as a critical policy issue as countries increase their efforts to foster...
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Friday, May 17, 2019
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Access to justice for women and girls with disabilities
Women Enabled
Women and girls with disabilities, who make up almost one-fifth of the world’s population of women, face significant barriers to accessing justice, due to discrimination on the basis of both gender and disability, accessibility barriers to the...
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Thursday, May 09, 2019
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Presidents’ sex and popularity: baselines, dynamics and policy performance
Cambridge University Press
Public approval is a crucial source of executive power in presidential systems. Does the public support female and male presidents similarly? Combining insights from gender and politics research with psychological evidence, this study theorizes sex-...
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