Measuring Women's Political Empowerment across the Globe Strategies, Challenges and Future Research /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alexander, Amy C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bolzendahl, Catherine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jalalzai, Farida (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Gender and Politics,
• Subjects: Identity politics.; Democracy.; Legislative bodies.; Politics and Gender.; Legislative and Executive Politics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Measuring Women's Political Empowerment across the Globe: Strategies, Challenges and Future Research; Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl and Farida Jalalzai
• Women's Political Empowerment through Public Opinion Research: The Citizen Perspective; Amy C. Alexander, Hilde Coffé
• The Status of Women's Empowerment Worldwide; Senem Ertan, Catalina Monroy,  Juan Pablo
• Intersectionality and Women's Political Empowerment Worldwide; Melanie Hughes, Joshua Dubrow,
• Social Movements as Women's Political Empowerment: The Case for Measurement; Kathleen Fallon, Heidi Rademacher
• Women's Empowerment at the Local Level; Aksel Sündstrom, Lena Wängnerud
• Electing Women to National Legislatures; Diana Z. O'Brien, Jennifer Piscopo
• Legislatures as Gendered Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for Women's Empowerment as Political Elites; Catherine Bolzendahl
• The Empowerment of Women in Diplomacy; Ann Towns, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Birgitta Niklasson
• Measuring Women's Judicial Empowerment as Part of Political Empowerment; Sally J. Kenney
• Women Cabinet Ministers in Highly Visible Posts and Empowerment of Women: Are the Two Related?; Tiffany Barnes, Michelle Taylor-Robinson
• Women Heads of States and Government; Farida Jalalzai.-Conclusions and Future Directions; Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai.