Essays about: "gender reform"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 essays containing the words gender reform.

1. 1. The Effect of a Universal Primary Education Reform on Gender Attitudes in Uganda

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Emma Bergman Karlsson; Klara Holmer; [2023]
   Keywords : Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design; Two-Stage Least Squares; Gender Attitudes; Universal Primary Education; Uganda;

   Abstract : This thesis examines whether greater access to primary school education for girls and a decreased gender gap in primary school education affects gender attitudes, by studying a Universal Primary Education reform in Uganda that eliminated primary school fees. We conduct a Two-Stage Least Squares regression where we use exogenous variation in exposure to the reform as an instrumental variable to estimate the effect of educational attainment on gender attitudes. READ MORE

3. 2. Using Gender Quotas to Legitimise Non-Democracies : A critical discourse analysis of the Algerian gender quota

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Cajsa Hemström; [2023]
   Keywords : gender quota; autocratic gender-washing; feminist institutionalism; Algeria; critical discourse analysis; gender reform; WPP;

   Abstract : This thesis examines a gender quota in Algeria to determine if signs can be found that it was adopted to improve the regime’s image, rather than to empower women. Such symbolic gender reforms are also known as autocratic gender-washing and are problematic as they are generally viewed as democratisation efforts but have no such effect. READ MORE

4. 3. Silent Exodus : A study on Gender-Based Violence and Migration Decision-Making of Women from Honduras in the USA

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Andrea Nicolle Alemán Martínez; [2023]
   Keywords : GBV; decision-making; aspirations; capabilities; mobility;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the role of GBV in the decision-making process of Honduran women that migrate to the U.S. Drawing upon de Haas’s aspirations-capabilities framework, this study aims to understand women’s aspirations to migrate and their interplay within a broader societal context. READ MORE

5. 4. Reversing Roe - A Case Study of Institutional Change of Abortion Rights in the United States

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Ellinor Ackefors; [2023]
   Keywords : abortion; Roe v. Wade; United States; historical institutionalism; gradual institutional change; gender-inequitable change;

   Abstract : Building on historical institutionalism, this paper explores gradual institutional change. As previous research on institutional change has focused on shifts towards gender equality, there is less known about gender-inequitable changes. The reversal of abortion rights in the United States by overturning Roe v. READ MORE

6. 5. Women’s representation in local governance: A case study on the effects of quota implementation in Colombo, Sri Lanka

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Alexandra Wigren; [2023]
   Keywords : Sri Lanka; quota; electoral reform; women’s substantive representation; politics of presence; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : A qualitative case study set in Colombo, Sri Lanka focusing on women’s representation in local governance. The essay follows the aftermath of the country’s newly implemented electoral reform, which since 2018 resulted in a mixed- member-proportional electoral system with a gender quota. READ MORE