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Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman
Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman
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76 minutes
Released:
Jan 23, 2019
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Podcast episode
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In India, there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation. This political gender gap persists despite decades of democracy and universal adult suffrage, rapid economic development, and large-scale policies aimed at women's political empowerment. Women's political participation is important not only on normative grounds of inclusion, but because research shows that when women do participate, politics changes. Presenting findings from her book project, Soledad Prillaman evaluates the importance of social networks for women's political empowerment and documents how women who have become active political agents are received and resisted by traditional political networks.
Soledad Prillaman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University
Soledad Prillaman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University
Released:
Jan 23, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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