The Impact of Religious and Less Religious Constitutions on Female Versus Male School Enrollment

• In Event: 65.055 - Challenges to Change

Abstract

As we move from the Arab Spring, several Muslim countries are still embroiled in debate over whether a religious or a less religious political systems is better for the new, young governments that are struggling to rise. A key element in deciding which would be the most beneficial is the effect on gender equality, both for human rights and for economic development reasons. Studying the relationship between gender inequality in education and the governments’ level of religiosity is essential. This paper attempts to increase our understanding of the relationship between gender inequality in education in religious, less religious, liberal, more liberal, and secular countries using the statute of religion in countries’ constitutions from 1960 to 2010.

Author

• Sumaia Al-kohlani, University of Sharjah