Exploring Gender-Based Disparities in Legal Protection, Education, Health, Political Empowerment, and Employment in Failing and Fragile States
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-4-2014
Publication Title
Women & Criminal Justice
DOI
10.1080/08974454.2013.842514
ISSN
1541-0323
Abstract
Gender inequalities in legal protection, education, health, employment, and political empowerment have been of special interest to researchers for many years. Hausmann, Tyson, and Zahidi (2010, p. 3) noted, “Although gender-based inequalities exist in the majority of the world's cultures, religions, nations, and income groups, there are differences in the way these disparities manifest themselves and how they evolve over time.” The degree of governmental stability is a salient aspect of the process through which gender-based disparities manifest. Although all citizens are doubtlessly affected when states fail, women are especially marginalized and experience governmental failure in a fundamentally different way compared to their male counterparts. Thus, the goal of the current study is to analyze the relationship between state failure and gender-based disparities. Findings reveal significant relationships between gender disparities in most areas, however the relationship between legal protections and state failure produces the most robust results.
Recommended Citation
Gould, Laurie A..
2014.
"Exploring Gender-Based Disparities in Legal Protection, Education, Health, Political Empowerment, and Employment in Failing and Fragile States."
Women & Criminal Justice, 24 (4): 279-305: Taylor & Francis Online.
doi: 10.1080/08974454.2013.842514
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/crimjust-criminology-facpubs/126