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WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?
G E N D E R , G O V E R N M E N TS A N D G R A D UA TE S
THE QUESTION
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WHY?
• Development in a country
• Motives in lower-income countries are less
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Quotas
Civic Participation
Private Sector Experience
Willingness To Run
ACTUAL QUESTION
Does female education change women’s
representation in governments?
HYPOTHESIS
HYPOTHESIS
Increased representation of females in college level
education Increased representation of females in
national parliaments
METHOD
DATA
• WDI
• Independent Variable
• 4,000 Observations of Tertiary Education Ratios
• Dependent Variable
• 3,000 Observations of Parliamentary Ratios
GENERAL INFO
• 91 females for every 100 males with tertiary level
education
• Standard Deviation: 59.58
• Minimum: 0
• Maximum: 689.3 (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
• 14% of parliamentary occupied by females
• Standard Deviation: 10.3
• Minimum: 0
• Max: 56.3 (Rwanda)
CHALLENGES
• Gender Ratios
• GDP and Development
• Social Biases
ADDRESSING CHALLENGES
• More on this soon
• Open to suggestions
CASE STUDIES
RWANDA, UGANDA, SWEDEN, KUWAIT, HONDURAS
RESULTS
CORRELATION
College Ratio
College Ratio
1
Parliament Ratio
0.0966
Parliament Ratio
1
REGRESSION
College Ratio
Coefficie
nt
Standar
d
Error
t
Parliament
Ratio
.486
.127
3.83
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103.567
2.366
43.77
P > |t|
95%
Conf.
Lower
95%
Conf.
Upper
0.000
.238
.735
0.000
98.926
108.208
MORE RESULTS COMING SOON!
QUANTUM CONCLUSION
B O T H R I G H T A N D WR O N G
WHAT TO EXPECT
• Promising Data but selection problems
IF RIGHT
• Current Approaches
• Political Changes
• Funding
• Awareness
• Solution
• Education = Starting Point
IF WRONG
• New Approach
• Don’t make Women better Leaders
• Make people better voters
WHY DO WE CARE
EQUITABLE GOVERNMENT ->
EQUITABLE SOCIETIES
• Female Friendly Social Policies?
• Overall Education
• Healthcare