The Impact Of Womens Political Leadership On Democracy And Development
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Author | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
Publisher | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2013-12-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1849291098 |
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 | : Editors4change Limited |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781848591677 |
Describes barriers to women's political participation and explains why women's inclusion is crucial to democracy. It identifies strategies - electoral reform (New Zealand), party voluntary quotas (South Africa), and legislative quotas (Bangladesh and India) - that have helped to advance the participation of women in decision-making at all levels.
Author | : Shirley K. Randell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mariz Tadros |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2014-05-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1783600543 |
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 | : Anne Marie Goetz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2009-01-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135911061 |
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 | : Amy C. Alexander |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319640062 |
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 | : United Nations Development Programme |
Publisher | : United Nations Publications |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Annex 1. Note of appreciation
Author | : Dinesh Sharma |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2016-06-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1317570588 |
Is there a linkage between "smart power" and Hillary Clinton's leadership style? Can she advance American leadership and women's development worldwide? The Global Hillary addresses these questions and many others. Bringing together two key aspects of Clinton’s ongoing career—her advocacy for international women’s rights and the mission to foster democratic development around the world—The Global Hillary critically analyzes Clinton’s role as a transformative leader of global influence. Essays in this collection provide insight into Clinton’s leadership style, particularly her use of American "smart power" in foreign policy, while examining her impact on the continuing worldwide struggle for women’s rights. Using international perspectives on the historical and cultural contexts of Clinton’s leadership, this book also looks toward the future of women’s political leadership in the 21st century with special attention to the prospect of electing a woman to the United States presidency.
Author | : Saskia Brechenmacher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0197694284 |
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 | : Eileen McDonagh |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226514560 |
American women attain more professional success than most of their counterparts around the world, but they lag surprisingly far behind in the national political arena. Women held only 15 percent of U.S. congressional seats in 2006, a proportion that ranks America behind eighty-two other countries in terms of females elected to legislative office. A compelling exploration of this deficiency, TheMotherless State reveals why the United States differs from comparable democracies that routinely elect far more women to their national governing bodies and chief executive positions. Explaining that equal rights alone do not ensure equal access to political office, Eileen McDonagh shows that electoral gender parity also requires public policies that represent maternal traits. Most other democracies, she demonstrates, view women as more suited to govern because their governments have taken on maternal roles through social welfare provisions, gender quotas, or the continuance of symbolic hereditary monarchies. The United States has not adopted such policies, and until it does, McDonagh insightfully warns, American women run for office with a troubling disadvantage.