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Women's Political Participation in Developing Countries
Fri, August 30, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Marriott, Virginia CSession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
What individual and contextual factors help women in developing countries to engage in politics? What role do civil society organizations play in interpreting and framing collective challenges and in imbuing women with civic skills and resources to facilitate engagement? How is women's engagement shaped by gendered social roles and institutions? This panel explores political engagement by women, including poor women, in spaces and contexts when it might not always be predicted.
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Individual Presentations
The Gender Gap in Collective Political Mobilization in the Muslim World - Dilshod Achilov, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth; Renat Shaykhutdinov, Florida Atlantic University
In Whose Name? Women's Participation After the 2015 Nepali Earthquakes - Shana Scogin, University of Notre Dame
Women, Civil Society, and Institutions: A Quasi-Experiment from Rural Bangladesh - Nayma Qayum, Manhattanville College
Bystander Activism after the Arab Uprisings: Expanding Notions of Citizenship? - Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest University