POLS 280 Lecture 16: week 10

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 280
• Professor: Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant

Document Summary

Government responsibility to ensure worker"s rights are protected. Conflict and women"s access to political power th , 2014. Overview: effects on conflict on women"s political power, explaining these effects. Armed conflict: examining variation in women"s post-conflict representation, brutal effects on men, women, and children, as well as on public infrastructure. Use of rape and sexual violence as a tool of war. Received sustained attention at international level: armed conflict can also provide opportunities for change. Opportunities for women to take on governance positions. Conflict can produce conditions in which both representation and power grow for women armed conflict. Civil wars is more likely than interstate war to produce this kind of change: civil wars more likely to be about ideology and form, interstate wars more likely about material of government resources. Focus on developing countries, where conflict has been a factor in rapid growth in women"s representation. Women"s legislative representation across africa increased more than ten times since 1960.