The Status of Women’s political empowerment worldwide

Measuring women’s political empowerment (WPE) poses an important challenge. Approaches to an empirical understanding of WPE are not thoroughly consolidated, thus preventing a comprehensive explanation of the status of women’s political empowerment globally. In this chapter, we contribute to the rese...

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Autores Principales: Ertan Senem., Monroy, Catalina, Vallejo Juan Pablo, Romero German, Erazo Ana Catalina
Formato: Capítulo de libro (Book Chapter)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/28906
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64006-8_3
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Sumario:Measuring women’s political empowerment (WPE) poses an important challenge. Approaches to an empirical understanding of WPE are not thoroughly consolidated, thus preventing a comprehensive explanation of the status of women’s political empowerment globally. In this chapter, we contribute to the research on women’s political empowerment, adding a new dimension related to security and equality issues. We argue that to understand WPE globally, academic approaches must consider variables on the security status of women worldwide. To fill this gap, we developed a multivariable index using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as our main methodological strategy. The results provide researchers with inputs that will help explain women’s political empowerment through multidimensional components.