2013
DOI: 10.1017/s1755048312000648
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Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World

Abstract: Of the 45 Muslim majority countries in the world, 42 have signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. While this does indeed signal a motive to improve women's rights, there is wide disparity in terms of which countries expand rights and which do not. Social science literature suggests that in addition to economic factors like wealth and oil resources, or political factors like the quality of democracy in the country, Islamic culture may be at odds with the Western co… Show more

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“…In a separate line of research, Chaturvedi and Montoya (2013) find that Muslim countries that restrict the influence of fundamentalist religion improve women's economic and social rights. We might similarly anticipate that when fundamentalist groups have a stronger societal presence, patriarchal attitudes may also be more widespread.…”
Section: The Link Between Religion and Gender Inequality: Theory And mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In a separate line of research, Chaturvedi and Montoya (2013) find that Muslim countries that restrict the influence of fundamentalist religion improve women's economic and social rights. We might similarly anticipate that when fundamentalist groups have a stronger societal presence, patriarchal attitudes may also be more widespread.…”
Section: The Link Between Religion and Gender Inequality: Theory And mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The latter (Bayanpourtehrani and Sylwester, 2013b;Chaturvedi and Montoya, 2013) can be accounted for by a kind of cultural discrimination against women, which are permanently refused the right to work and actively contribute to the national economy. As underlined by, inter alia, Al-Qudsi (1998), Ross (2008) or Sharabi (1988), the Muslim traditions mitigate women from unbound access to education or healthcare systems, which essentially inhibits them from entering the labor force.…”
Section: Interdisciplinary Approach To Economics and Sociologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It also takes women's proportion of the national legislature into account, and it does not assume that women lack political rights because a given country has no formal democratic institutions. Each measure is quantified on a four-point ordinal scale (0–3) where higher scores indicate greater respect for women's rights (see also Chaturvedi and Montoya 2013).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 11. Summary statistics are presented in Appendix B. Ross (2008) also includes “income squared” and “working age” in some of his models. To test the sensitivity of the results, I have run models that include these as well as additional control variables such as population size (logged) and “British legal origin” (see Chaturvedi and Montoya 2013; Potrafke 2012). None of these tests questions the main findings of the study.…”
Section: Notesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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