Class Year
2015
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Spring 2015
Department 1
Political Science
Abstract
This paper analyzes whether women’s social rights play a role in fostering higher levels of economic development. Prior development initiatives and economic policies failed to account for the productive capacities of women by discriminating against their basic rights to things such as an equitable education, equal inheritance, and marital rights. Applying the CIRI (Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights) dataset for women’s social rights, I found that improvements in these areas of human rights leads to significant increases in real GDP per capita, which highlights the need for development analysts and economists to focus their attention on countries’ most viable productive resource, women.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Evans, Monae S., "Women's Social Rights: Untapped Economic Potential" (2015). Student Publications. 353.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/353
Included in
Income Distribution Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Political Science Commons, Social Policy Commons, Women's Studies Commons
Comments
This paper was written for Professor Caroline Hartzell's course, POL 303: Women and the Political Economy of Development, Spring 2015.