Empowering Women: Four Theories Tested on Four …

Empowering women : four Theories Tested on four Different Aspects of Gender Equality Amy C. Alexander (University of California, Irvine). Christian Welzel (Jacobs University Bremen). ABSTRACT. Multiple literatures suggest that the following factors may figure prominently in explanations of women 's increasing empowerment: (1) socioeconomic development; (2) rising gender- egalitarian attitudes that transform economic development into a cultural process of human development; (3) historical legacies stemming from a society 's cultural and political traditions;. and (4) institutional design factors. This study is the first to compare the influence of these factors across four aspects of gender equality, equality gains in basic living conditions, participation in civic actions, positional empowerment and political representation.

Index, the “feminization” of civil society, and the Gender Empowerment Index. On the other hand, the relevance of political factors should diminish the influence of culture and economics in predicting women’s representation in parliament with institutional design becoming central to explaining this fourth stage.

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