POLS 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gender Role

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

Document Summary

Armed conflicts can also provide opportunities for change: positions for women in political power conflict can produce conditions in which both representation and power grow. Particularly conducive conditions following large-scale internal armed conflict (civil wars include war of independence, ethnic conflicts, and revolutionary wars). Civil wars are more likely to promote large institutional change; this change can allow for change for women. This analysis has a 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 tenfold since 1960. Women"s average levels of representation in south america is greater than in. Rwanda is the first national legislature where women"s representation is equal to their proportion of the population. Armed conflict can create a setting that makes representation more accessible. Broadly, armed conflict can alter the supply of and demand for women in politics. 3 overarching factors: structural, cultural/ideological and political.