{"id":59342,"date":"2024-04-30T17:42:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=59342"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:44:30","slug":"59342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2024\/04\/30\/59342\/","title":{"rendered":"Brul\u00e9 Discusses Gender Quotas and Power in Indian Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rachel Brul\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rachel Brul\u00e9<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston University\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<\/span>, was recently featured in the CASI Election Conversations 2024 series<\/a> by the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI).<\/p>\n

The interview with CASI Consulting Editor Rohan Venkat explored Brul\u00e9’s research on gender quotas in Indian politics and their wide-ranging impacts. Brul\u00e9 highlighted India’s pioneering role in instituting quotas reserving 33% of local elected seats for women starting in the 1990s, and the recent constitutional amendment extending those quotas to Parliament and state assemblies.<\/p>\n

Brul\u00e9 discussed her work analyzing the successes of the quotas in reshaping political, economic and social power dynamics, as well as the backlash these reforms have faced. “I would say the cautious optimists are winning,” Brul\u00e9 stated. “From my work as well as others’, we see that reservations really do have the power to fundamentally disrupt broader systems of power in much more holistic ways than I think early work gave them credit for.”<\/p>\n

Her book “Reform, Representation, and Resistance”<\/a> examines how female village council leaders can facilitate women claiming their equal inheritance rights by reconfiguring public spaces, mobilizing women, and repurposing the private sphere.<\/p>\n

The interview explored Brul\u00e9’s findings that while quotas empower some women to inherit property by providing bargaining power over practices like dowry payments, resistance persists where women’s claims are most costly to families. Brul\u00e9 advocates cautious optimism and holistic support infrastructures as the quotas extend nationwide.<\/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 Professor Brul\u00e9\u00a0on her\u00a0<\/span>faculty profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the CASI Election Conversations 2024 series, Professor Rachel Brul\u00e9 analyzed India’s gender quotas for elected offices. Brul\u00e9 highlighted her research showing quotas can disrupt power systems by helping women claim inheritance rights, but face resistance. She advocated “cautious optimism” and holistic support as transformative quotas extend nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22859,"featured_media":45272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11797],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59342"}],"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\/22859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59342\/revisions\/59345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}