Gender Equality and Intrastate Armed Conflict.
In this article, I examine to what extent gender equality is associated with lower levels of intrastate armed conflict. I use three measures of gender equality: (1) a dichotomous indicator of whether the highest leader of a state is a woman; (2) the percentage of women in parliament; and (3) the fem...
| Published in: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 695 - 715 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2005
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