CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Khurshid, Hina |
|---|---|
| Title | The Impact of Increasing Female Political Representation on the Economic Empowerment of Women in Pakistan |
| Summary | The common rationale behind the fight for increasing female political participation and representation is that when some women come into positions of power they will bring about positive policy changes that empower other women in the country in terms of their political, social and economic conditions. An increase in political representation and participation of women strengthens the democratic system of a country and contributes to gender equality. In this paper I will focus on studying the relationship between increased female political representation in Pakistan on the level of their economic empowerment. I took the proportion of women in National Assembly as the indicator for female representation and the female labor force participation as the indicator for the economic empowerment of women in the country. Since there are a number of factors such as gender role attitudes, level of female education, rate of urbanization, and cultural, societal and religious norms, that impact both, female representation and their labor force participation, there is a chance of endogeneity in the model. To solve the problem of endogeneity, I’ve used gender quotas as an instrumental variable to represent the proportion of women in the parliament and have used the Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) method to conduct the empirical analysis. Results show that increasing the proportion of women in the National Assembly has a significantly positive impact on the female labor force participation in Pakistan. Implications of this results and policy recommendations for the future are also discussed in the last sections of the thesis. |
| Supervisor | Weber, Andrea |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/khurshid_hina.pdf |
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