Putting Women Up: Gender Equality and Politics in Myanmar
Date of publication:
2024
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
206
Code:
PIC298
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789815104417
About the publication
For the duration of Myanmar’s experiment with electoral democracy, why did some women run for political office, and not others? What role did gatekeepers such as party leaders play in those decisions, and using what criteria in selecting candidates? How did experience of domestic violence or harassment affect women’s likelihood to participate in politics, especially beyond the local level? And what implications might these earlier patterns have for a post-coup Myanmar, should meaningful elections be restored?
The contributors to Putting Women Up: Gender Equality and Politics in Myanmar answer these questions by examining the internal politics of nine political parties in Myanmar and both men’s and women’s attitudes towards and experiences of political leadership. Drawing on extensive interview, survey, and focus-group discussion data collected from across Myanmar in 2017 and 2020, this book offers a mixed-methods approach to explain how factors from party rules to formative personal trauma to patriarchal biases to ethno-religious context shape women’s and men’s likelihood to join local and national politics. The findings expand on culturalist insights on gender inequality to provide context-sensitive, evidence-backed policy recommendations to promote women’s political leadership, despite militarization and violence in post-coup Myanmar.
Contents
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Putting Women Up: Gender Equality and Politics in Myanmar
[Whole Publication, ISBN: 9789815104424], by Netina Tan, Meredith L Weiss, editors -
Preliminary pages
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1. Putting Women Up: Promoting Gender Equality in Myanmar Politics, by Netina Tan, Meredith L Weiss, authors
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2. The Secret Garden of Candidate Selection and Women’s Political Participation, by Aye Lei Tun, Netina Tan, authors
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3. Ethnic Parties, Representation, and Female Candidate Recruitment in Myanmar, by Jangai Jap, Cassandra Preece , authors
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4. Attitudes Towards Women and Political Leadership, by Anor Mu, Paul Minoletti, Guillem Riambau, Michelle Dion, authors
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5. Violence, Gender, and Politics, by Elin Bjarnegard, author
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6. Navigating Local Politics and Gender, by Cassandra Preece , La Ring Pausa, Paul Minoletti, authors
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Appendices
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Index
