Promoting Gender Equality In Political Participation

Author : Damilola Taiye Agbalajobi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786615213

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Promoting Gender Equality in Political Participation by Damilola Taiye Agbalajobi Pdf

The book analyses patterns of women’s political participation and evaluates disparity between levels of women’s participation in politics and representation in governance in Nigeria. It also examines the causes of women’s underrepresentation in governance and decision-making as well as their implications for the country’s socioeconomic development and describes strategies for increased women’s representation in governance and decision-making in Nigeria. This study relies on political-culture and liberal-feminist theory and adopts a mixed-method research design involving quantitative and qualitative methods. It uses multistage sampling in selecting Nigeria’s South-East, North-West and South-West geopolitical-zones and 1206 women of electoral age for the study survey conducted using structured questionnaire and in-depth interview.

Author : Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849291095

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The Impact of Women’s Political Leadership on Democracy and Development by Commonwealth Secretariat Pdf

Women’s minimal leadership role in national and local political spheres remains a serious concern worldwide. The Commonwealth Gender Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005–2015 calls on governments to introduce measures to promote at least 30 per cent representation of women in parliament, government and business. The Impact of Women’s Political Leadership on Democracy and Development describes the barriers to women’s political participation and explains why the contribution of women is so crucial to democracy. It identifies established strategies – electoral reform (New Zealand), party voluntary quotas (South Africa), and legislative quotas (Bangladesh and India) – that have helped these Commonwealth countries to meet the global target of 30 per cent and thus to effectively advance the participation of women in decision-making at all levels.

Author : Amy C. Alexander,Catherine Bolzendahl,Farida Jalalzai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319640068

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Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe by Amy C. Alexander,Catherine Bolzendahl,Farida Jalalzai Pdf

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 all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's political empowerment through cross-national comparisons, a synthesis of methodological approaches across varied levels of politics, and attention to the ways gender intersects with myriad factors in shaping women’s political empowerment. This book is an indispensable resource for scholars of politics and gender, as well as being relevant to a global scholarly and policy community.

Author : Julie Ballington
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Women
ISBN : 9789291423798

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Equality in Politics by Julie Ballington Pdf

Author : Mariz Tadros
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783600557

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Women in Politics by Mariz Tadros Pdf

Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women’s political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still. We have, however, begun to understand what it takes to create an enabling environment for women’s political participation. In this exciting and pioneering collection, writers from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are brought together for the first time to talk explicitly about women’s participation in the political scene across the global South. Answering such questions as how women can get political apprenticeship opportunities, how these opportunities translate into the pursuit of a political career, and how these pursuits then influence the kind of political platform women advocate once in power, Women in Politics is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to engage politically.

Author : Kazuki Iwanaga
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788776940164

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Women's Political Participation and Representation in Asia by Kazuki Iwanaga Pdf

The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But there is a marked lack of relevant research as well as of comprehensive and user-friendly texts. Aiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.

Author : Maria J. D'Agostino,Marilyn Marks Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317406877

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Governing in a Global World by Maria J. D'Agostino,Marilyn Marks Rubin Pdf

Governing in a Global World captures the panorama of women governing around the world. Even though the modern era marks history’s greatest advancements for women, worldwide they hold fewer than 30 percent of decision-making positions and are often missing from negotiating tables where policies are made and conflicts resolved. The opening chapters present trends and context for studying women in public service by focusing on path-setters across the globe, the status of women in the world’s executive and legislative bodies, and their participation in public service across several nations. Later chapters examine power, leadership and representation of women in public service, with several chapters looking at women governing from a regional perspective in the Middle East, Sub Sahara Africa, Latin America, and China. The final chapter presents empirical evidence that shows how policies to increase women’s representation in the public arena reduce gender inequality more than any other policy intervention. Taken together, the chapters illustrate the worldwide importance of, and challenges to, promoting gender equality and women governing.

Author : R. Letha Kumari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015057618731

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Women in Politics by R. Letha Kumari Pdf

With reference to India.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264921412

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Government at a Glance 2021 by OECD Pdf

The 2021 edition includes input indicators on public finance and employment; process indicators include data on institutions, budgeting practices, human resources management, regulatory governance, public procurement, governance of infrastructure, public sector integrity, open government and digital government. Outcome indicators cover core government results (e.g. trust, political efficacy, inequality reduction) and indicators on access, responsiveness, quality and satisfaction for the education, health and justice sectors.

Author : Dunia Tegegn
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783668697683

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Beyond numbers. Promoting women's meaningful political participation in Ethiopia by Dunia Tegegn Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2016 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: A, Georgetown University, course: Gender and foreign Policy, language: English, abstract: Although there is a growing representation of women in political decision-making positions in Ethiopia, the achievement of equality between men and women can be accelerated through translating the increasing levels of representation into meaningful participation.

Author : Saskia Brechenmacher,Katherine Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197694282

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Aiding Empowerment by Saskia Brechenmacher,Katherine Mann Pdf

Today, gender equality is widely seen as a critical dimension of democracy. Over the past three decades, the United States and other donor governments have spent millions on aid programs that seek to advance women's equal political participation and leadership around the world. What do these assistance programs consist of, and how effective have they been? In Aiding Empowerment, Saskia Brechenmacher and Katherine Mann take a critical look at this growing field of international aid and policy action. Drawing on research in Kenya, Nepal, Morocco, and Myanmar, they examine the varied methods aid providers use to challenge patriarchal political structures and support local reformers, identify persisting challenges and promising innovations, and make practical recommendations for reform.

Author : Julie Ballington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Elections
ISBN : IND:30000149616942

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Inclusive Electoral Processes by Julie Ballington Pdf

Author : Judith Squires
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137036537

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The New Politics of Gender Equality by Judith Squires Pdf

During the past decade governments around the globe have introduced institutional mechanisms to promote the advancement of women, including measures to increase women's political participation rates and to incorporate women's interests into policy-making. Why have they done so? How successful have these initiatives been? What are the emerging agendas facing gender equality advocates now? In The New Politics of Gender Equality Judith Squires examines the origins, evolution and key features of three strategies that have been employed across the world in pursuit of gender equality – quotas, policy agencies and gender mainstreaming. The author critically examines each strategy to see how far they transform political institutions and agendas and to what extent they lead rather to the assimilation of women in male-defined structures. Squires argues that a multi-pronged approach, drawing on democratic rather than technocratic strategies, offers the best potential for advancing gender equality. She highlights too the limitations of approaches that ignore inequalities among women and the challenges of developing equality initiatives to address multiple and cross-cutting inequalities between groups. Judith Squires is Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol. She has written, researched and published widely in the field of gender politics and gender equality.

Author : Anne Marie Goetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135911065

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Governing Women by Anne Marie Goetz Pdf

Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.

Author : Mariette Sineau
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789287153432

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Genderware by Mariette Sineau Pdf

It is a common misconception that the battle for gender equality in political life has been won. In most member states, women are significantly under-represented in local, regional and national decision-making bodies. On a Europe-wide level, they account for only 18 % of parliamentary membership. This book traces the history of the Council of Europe policy on promoting the women's participation in political life. It describes the principles and methods behind policies, the institutional mechanisms on which they are based, and analyses the major topics involved. It concludes by discussing areas essential for future work: gender quotas for political parties, guaranteed social rights for women and the reinforcement of secularity.