female chancellor and the gender distribution in the current cabinet is almost equal, certain ministerial posts have yet to … committing itself to gender parity. In state parliaments, women are more underrepresented than on the national level. In the …

economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in that measures of women's participation … an instrumental variable towards estimating the true causal effect of gender upon corruption. The ensuing estimates …Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in …