{"id":12893,"date":"2020-11-30T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=12893"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:23:11","slug":"rachel-brule-on-women-power-and-property-the-paradox-of-gender-equality-laws-in-india-dec-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2020\/11\/30\/rachel-brule-on-women-power-and-property-the-paradox-of-gender-equality-laws-in-india-dec-11-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Brul\u00e9 on “Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India” (Dec. 11, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Global Development Policy Center’s Human Capital Initiative\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

is very pleased to invite you to an important book launch talk and discussion by<\/p>\n

Rachel Brul\u00e9<\/span><\/h2>\n

(Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University)<\/em><\/p>\n

Women, Power, and Property: <\/span><\/a>
The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As part of the Human Capital Initiative (HCI), Professor Rachel Brul\u00e9 will present her new book \u201cWomen, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India,<\/a>\u201d in a webinar moderated by HCI Associate Director Patricia Cortes.<\/p>\n

Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. \u200bBrul\u00e9 seeks to explore this issue within the context of India, the world\u2019s largest democracy, using cutting-edge research design and extensive field research to make connections among political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment.<\/p>\n

Her findings show that women in government catalyze access to fundamental economic rights: property rights. Women in politics also have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, sparking integrative solutions to intra-household bargaining. Although they can lead to backlash, quotas are essential for enforcement \u200bof rights. In this groundbreaking study, Brul\u00e9 shows how quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.<\/p>\n

Register to attend<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

For additional information, click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rachel Brule<\/strong> (http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/rachel-brule\/<\/a>) is an Assistant Professor of Global \"\"<\/a>Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Core Faculty of the Global Development Policy Center\u2019s Human Capital Initiative. Her research interests are broadly in comparative politics, international development, political economy, and gender, with a geographical focus on South Asia. Specifically, she studies the relationship between political representation and inequality in social and economic domains across democratic and hybrid political regimes. Her book, Women\u2019s Representation and Resistance (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) shows that women\u2019s political representation catalyzes effective claims to fundamental economic rights, in particular land inheritance. She has conducted extensive field work in India, Africa, and the Middle East, and her current research leverages a combination of randomized controlled trials, survey experiments, and natural quasi-experiments to improve causal inference about when quotas effectively redistribute power and improve policy and economic outcomes for socially stigmatized groups across India, what enables women\u2019s substantive political engagement and empowerment in hybrid regimes such as Nepal, and how the nature of inequality alters support for local and global protection of citizens\u2019 economic and environmental welfare across developing countries.<\/p>\n

Before joining BU, Rachel was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at New York University, based in Abu Dhabi and affiliated in New York. Her articles are forthcoming or published in the Journal of Politics,<\/em> the Journal of Development Economics<\/em>, and Asian Survey<\/em>. Her co-authored work with Nikhar Gaikwad (\u201cCulture, Capital & the Gender Gap in Political Economy Preferences\u201d) was awarded the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper Overall and Kellogg Notre Dame Award for Best Paper in Comparative Politics presented at the Midwest Political Science Association\u2019s annual 2017 meeting. She is a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship and a Truman Scholarship, and has worked to develop, implement, and analyze randomized control trials on the impact of economic rights and resources in collaboration with MIT\u2019s Poverty Action Lab and the World Bank. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.<\/p>\n

SPECIALIZATION:<\/p>\n

Comparative Politics, International Development, Political Economy, Gender, Representation, Inequality, South Asia<\/p>\n

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