Does Local Female Political Representation Empower Women to Run for Higher Office? Evidence from State and National Legislatures in India

• Tác giả: Ryan Brown
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 108.2 History and description of philosophy with respect to kinds of persons
• Thông tin xuất bản: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank, 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 291443
• Chủ đề: 1. EMPOWERMENT; 2. GENDER GAP; 3. INDIA; 4. POLITICAL REPRESENTATION; 5. PUBLIC SERVICE

Tóm tắt

Does increasing the number of women in career stages that precede high-level positions affect female representation at the top of the career ladder State legislature elections narrowly won by female candidates in India are exploited to examine the effect of expanding the pipeline of women in local politics on subsequent female representation and success in national legislature elections. For each additional state legislature election won by a woman, there is a 34 percent increase in the number of female candidates contesting in the subsequent national election, and a 2.6 percentage-point increase in the average vote share won per female candidate. This relationship is driven by new female politicians and not by the progression of female state legislators nor by continued candidacy of previous female candidates for the national legislature.