Title

Globalizing Gender Equality: The Economic Imperative of Women's Political and Corporate Leadership

Comments

Working paper, submitted Sept. 3, 2007

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Globalizing Gender Equality: The Economic Imperative of Women's Political and Corporate Leadership raises the discussion of quotas for women’s representation to consider the relevance and efficacy of such leadership in the context of economic development and growth. Women’s labor is vastly underutilized and growth would benefit from a broader inclusion of women. Second, this article explores French, Brazilian, Indian and Norwegian remedies for increasing women’s leadership in both political and corporate contexts. Third, the paper will examine Esther Duflo's analysis of the effects of India's parity law, in particular regarding the effect of women's representation on policy decisions, with a focus on the impact of this representation in the Middle East region. It examines the utility of such laws by applying recent studies on the efficacy of women’s representation to these laws.