{"id":46823,"date":"2021-01-22T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=46823"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:30:00","slug":"brule-discusses-new-book-with-india-development-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2021\/01\/22\/brule-discusses-new-book-with-india-development-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Brul\u00e9 Discusses New Book with India Development Review<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(There are more women in elected office in India than anywhere else in the world, probably more than the rest of the world combined. | Picture courtesy: \u00a9Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\/Prashant Panjiar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rachel Brul\u00e9<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed by the\u00a0India Development Review <\/em>on her latest book Women, Power, and Property: the Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In the interview, Brul\u00e9 talked about how she got into investigating the links between political representation and economic empowerment while exploring the broader question of how to undercut inegalitarian social conventions as well as the key findings of her research. She also touched on the importance of recognizing the relationship between the Indian caste system, political representation, and property rights as well as the role of quotas.<\/p>\n

An excerpt:<\/p>\n

How is the relationship between political representation and property rights impacted by caste? Does it hold true across caste groups, and does the caste of elected women make a difference?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I found the strongest positive relationship between political representation and the ability to claim property rights amongst the relatively advantaged castes. There is a nine to ten percentage point improvement in the likelihood that women will inherit land if they\u2019re from forward castes…<\/p>\n

But these are also the groups that see the strongest backlash, as social constraints on women\u2019s mobility tend to bind even more keenly for women from upper castes. When gender-equal property rights are introduced in addition to having a woman elected leader, we see a decline of somewhere between 21 and 24 percentage points in the probability that they\u2019ll inherit any land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full interview can be read on the India Development Review<\/em>‘s website<\/a>. Learn more about\u00a0Women, Power, and Property\u00a0<\/em>on the Pardee School website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rachel Brul\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is an Assistant Professor of Global 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. Read more about Brul\u00e9 on her <\/span>faculty profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Brul\u00e9 discusses how she got into investigating the links between political representation and economic empowerment and key findings of her research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":46824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[11784,9443,1689,1165,11435,8936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46825,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46823\/revisions\/46825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}