Political Participation of Women: Impact and the Way Forward

The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps with Dr Irma-Clots Figueras on Political Participation of Women: Impact and the Way Forward

Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC) at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to

The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps

Political Participation of Women
Impact and the Way Forward

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: June 10, 2021
Time: 6 PM IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live

Speaker:

Prof Irma-Clots Figueras
Professor, Economics, School of Economics, University of Kent, United Kingdom

Irma Clots-Figueras is a Professor of Economics at the University of Kent and a co-director of DeReCK (Development Economics Research Centre at Kent). She was previously at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2006. Her research interests include Development Economics, Labor Economics, Migration, Cultural Economics, and Political Economy. In 2019 she was awarded the Sabadell-Herrero Prize for the Best Young Spanish Economist.

Chair:
Prof Vibhuti Patel
Eminent Economist, Feminist; Former Professor, TATA Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai

Discussants:

Prof Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu
Professor, Faculty of International Business and Economics, Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Prof Jaya Dantas
Deputy Chair of the Curtin University Academic Board; Professor of International Health, Curtin School of Population Health and Dean International, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia

Dr Chitra Lele
Assistant Professor & Head, Department of Political Science, SNDT Arts College, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India

Dr Chaitra Redkar
Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India

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Abstract:

Despite women constituting half the world’s population, they account for less than a quarter of the membership of national parliaments globally. Such descriptive or numerical under-representation can have consequences for substantive representation of women’s interests. I will first talk about previous research showing that greater political participation by women results in policy choices that are more relevant for women’s needs. I will then talk about some of the causes behind low female political representation, and I will explain my research examining whether women winning elections encourage other women to participate as candidates, maybe creating a virtuous cycle of greater women’s political participation in the future.

PowerPoint Presentation

YouTube Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NngeDZ1JQnU

Facebook Live Video:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&v=3871857836253700