The Political Participation of Women in Brazil: Female Mayors

Blay, Eva Alterman; Soeiro, Susan A.

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“…A summary by world regions will point out some individual cases that tend to strengthen the case for the SWI as a reasonably adequate index for world comparisons. (1) The Americas remain about the same, except that Peru, with a low rate of female literacy and with high fertility, drops a rung to join Bolivia in a lower category. Haiti also drops, falling to the lowest category on the SWI.…”

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Toward a Status-of-Women Index

Andrews

1982

The Professional Geographer

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A useful index of the status of women should be mappable, in order to allow global and regional comparisons. Ideally, such an index should include political, economic, and social components. In actuality, data that measure political and economic equality are available only in Western societies. An index that measures the general well-being of women, however, can be mapped and used crossculturally. An index is proposed that includes indicators from the areas of health, education and fertility.

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confidence: 99%