Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe: Strategies, Challenges and Future Research

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction to Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment Across the Globe: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Research (Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai)....Pages 1-25 Women’s Political Empowerment Through Public Opinion Research: The Citizen Perspective (Amy C. Alexander, Hilde Coffé)....Pages 27-53 The Status of Women’s Political Empowerment Worldwide (Senem Ertan, Catalina Monroy, Juan Pablo Vallejo, Germán Romero, Ana Catalina Erazo)....Pages 55-76 Intersectionality and Women’s Political Empowerment Worldwide (Melanie M. Hughes, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow)....Pages 77-96 Social Movements as Women’s Political Empowerment: The Case for Measurement (Kathleen M. Fallon, Heidi E. Rademacher)....Pages 97-116 Women’s Empowerment at the Local Level (Aksel Sundström, Lena Wängnerud)....Pages 117-137 Electing Women to National Legislatures (Diana Z. O’Brien, Jennifer M. Piscopo)....Pages 139-163 Legislatures as Gendered Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment as Political Elites (Catherine Bolzendahl)....Pages 165-186 The Empowerment of Women in Diplomacy (Ann Towns, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Birgitta Niklasson)....Pages 187-205 Measuring Women’s Judicial Empowerment as Part of Political Empowerment (Sally J. Kenney)....Pages 207-227 Women Cabinet Ministers in Highly Visible Posts and Empowerment of Women: Are the Two Related? (Tiffany D. Barnes, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson)....Pages 229-255 Women Heads of State and Government (Farida Jalalzai)....Pages 257-282 Conclusions and Further Directions (Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai)....Pages 283-291 Back Matter ....Pages 293-303