Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman

In India, there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation. This political gender gap persists despite decades of democracy and universal adult suffrage, rapid economic development, and large-scale policies aimed at women's political empowerment. Women's political participation is important not only on normative grounds of inclusion, but because research shows that when women do participate, politics changes. Presenting findings from her book project, Soledad Prillaman evaluates the importance of social networks for women's political empowerment and documents how women who have become active political agents are received and resisted by traditional political networks. Soledad Prillaman , Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University

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Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman is an episode from Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series by Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School.

This episode is 75:51 long.

This episode was published on Jan 23, 2019.

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