Women's Political Empowerment: A New Global Index, 1900–2012

World Development

Volumn 94, Issue , 2017, Pages 321-335

  Sundström, Aksel ^a   Paxton, Pamela ^b   Wang, Yi Ting ^a,c   Lindberg, Staffan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

empowerment; gender; global; index; rights; women

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPOWERMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 85012888029     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: 18735991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.016     Document Type: Article

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