Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe

Editor(s): Amy Alexander

Author(s): Catherine Bolzendahl, and Farida Jalalzai

Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2017, pp. 320

The authors assess how women’s empowerment in the political sphere on a global scale can best be conceptualized and measured. This work argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation and provides a benchmark for understanding all gains in political empowerment across the globe.