This book explains why women's rights are improving more rapidly in post-conflict countries in Africa than elsewhere on the continent.

This book explains when and why governments around the world take action to advance - or undermine - women's rights.

This book explains when and why governments around the world take action to advance - or undermine - women's rights.

Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in...