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International human rights treaty to change social patterns : the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women

Cho, Seo-Young - 2010

women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … with a higher degree of democracy. These findings are robust to the choice of control variables and the method of …. -- effectiveness of international human rights treaties ; women's rights ; social dimension ; democracy ; and reservations …

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International Women's Convention, Democracy and Gender Equality

Cho, Seo-Young - 2016

cultural practice toward gender equality and this effect is conditional on the level of democracy of a member state. However …, the joint effect of CEDAW and democracy does not seem to create any significant impact on women’s political and economic … rights, nor does CEDAW or democracy alone affect any dimension of the women’s rights. These results indicate that …

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Institutionalized inequality and brain drain : an empirical study of the effects of women's rights on the gender gap in high-skilled migration

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the female high-skilled migration rates relative to that of male (the female brain drain ratio). By developing a model of migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender...

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Gendered Aid and Women’s Rights

Minasyan, Anna; Montinola, Gabriella - 2023

We study the role of development cooperation in improving women’s economic rights in non-OECD countries and assess whether development aid given for gender equality objectives leads to progress in women’s legal rights in recipient countries. We use a sample of over 100 recipient countries...

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Poverty and the Hidden Effects of Sex Discrimination : An Empirical Study of Inequality

Day, Gregory - 2016

Sexist laws are more prevalent in regions where poverty is endemic. The corollary is also true; the places where women experience less discrimination are typically more developed. The legal academy has drawn several inferences from this observation, including that poverty and the development...

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Gender difference in support for democracy in sub-Saharan Africa : do social institutions matter?

Konte, Maty - 2014

Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub … democracy in this region. This paper addresses the question of whether this observed gender gap is due to the omission of social … hypothesize that women who live under autocracy at home are less likely to support democracy outside, because it does not affect …