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Gender Equality and Authoritarian Regimes: New Directions for Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2023

Sarah Sunn Bush Open the ORCID record for Sarah Sunn Bush [Opens in a new window]  and
Pär Zetterberg
Sarah Sunn Bush*
Affiliation:
Yale University, USA
Pär Zetterberg
Affiliation:
Uppsala University, Sweden
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*Corresponding author. Email: sarah.bush@yale.edu
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There are competing global trends in terms of gender equality. International concern with gender inequality is significant. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (2000), and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (2015), among other instruments, pushed countries to increase women’s access to decision-making and basic rights such as education, paid labor, and health care. Yet more recently, there has been a “backlash” against progress in gender equality (Berry, Bouka, and Kamuru 2021; Chenoweth and Marks 2022; Piscopo and Walsh 2020; Roggeband and Krizsán 2018).

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Politics & Gender , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 2024 , pp. 212 - 216
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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