Overview
- Assesses the degree of women's empowerment across a variety of political roles, such as legislators, prime ministers, local officials, and cabinet ministers
- Written by leading scholars covering a broad geographical range to compare the experience of women across the globe
- Contributes to the development of policies to further women’s political empowerment
Part of the book series: Gender and Politics (GAP)
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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.
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Keywords
- women's political empowerment
- gender and politics
- feminist politics
- political influence of women
- global gendered politics
- women in political office
- gender issues in organisations
- women as political elites
- female cabinet ministers
- women heads of state and government
- measuring political empowerment
- problems with gendered political power
- political equality for women
- women in local politics
- democracy
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Amy C. Alexander is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Research Fellow with the Quality of Government Institute.
Catherine Bolzendahl is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Farida Jalalzai is the Hannah Atkins Endowed Chair and Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe
Book Subtitle: Strategies, Challenges and Future Research
Editors: Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai
Series Title: Gender and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64006-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64005-1Published: 27 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87697-9Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64006-8Published: 16 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-5814
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5822
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Politics and Gender, Democracy, Legislative and Executive Politics