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Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan
Published by: Cambridge University Press
How can we close persistent gender gaps in political participation? We develop a theory highlighting the role of male household members...
Women’s Political Participation in a Pakistani Metropolis: Navigating Gendered Household and Political Spaces
Published by: Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives
The male–female gap in voter turnout in the 2018 Pakistani general elections stood at 9.1 per cent, with 11 million fewer women...
Exercising Her Right to Vote: Experimental Evidence on Civic and Political Action as Pathways for Women’s Political Empowerment
In Pakistan, the gender gap in electoral participation continues to be a significant challenge. In the 8 min explainer video above,...
The Empty Promise of Urbanisation: Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Do big cities enable or hinder women’s electoral participation? What are the determinants of women’s participation in big cities and how are they different from those in rural areas? We use the Election Commission of Pakistan’s novel gender-disaggregated constituency level data set for the 2018 elections to answer these questions in the context of Pakistan.
Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan’s Big Cities: Evidence for Reform
Published by: IDS
Why did 11 million fewer women than men vote in Pakistan’s 2018 general elections? Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is a much higher gender gap in each province’s largest metropolitan city compared to its remaining constituencies. This gap relates to men’s views about women’s vote and women’s knowledge of politics and the electoral process.
Invisible Citizens: Why More Women in Pakistan Do Not Vote
Published by: IDS
Why does a gender gap in voting exist in Pakistan? Our research looks beyond the creation of democratic spaces for women's participation, such as voter registration, to look instead at the constraints that women face in being able to use such spaces. This paper uses qualitative fieldwork undertaken in Lahore over 2017–18 to understand what enables or constrains women’s decision to turn out to vote.