Governance and Women's Economic and Political Participation : Power Inequalities, Formal Constraints and Norms

Have institutional reforms been successful in reducing persistent gender gaps in economic and political participation? This paper argues that, at the roots of current gender inequalities, there are traditional patriarchal social structures in which power is unequally distributed, with men traditiona...

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Main Authors: Milazzo, Annamaria, Goldstein, Markus
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34344