TY - JOUR
T1 - Powerful women
T2 - Does exposure reduce bias?
AU - Beaman, Lori
AU - Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra
AU - Duflo, Esther
AU - Pande, Rohini
AU - Topalova, Petia
N1 - Funding Information:
∗The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect those of the International Monetary Fund, its management, or its Executive Board. We thank Ash Institute Harvard, Nike Foundation, MIT, YCIAS Yale, and UNICEF for funding, Alexandra Cirone, Catherine Lee, and Kudzai Takavarasha for research assistance, and Prasid Chakraborty and the SRG team for outstanding fieldwork. We also thank Abhijit Banerjee, Tim Besley, Shawn Cole, Dominic Leggett, Elhanan Helpman, Larry Katz, four anonymous referees, and numerous seminar participants for comments.
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female leader is associated with electoral gains for women. After ten years of quotas, women are more likely to stand for, and win, elected positions in councils required to have a female chief councilor in the previous two elections. We provide experimental and survey evidence on one channel of influence-changes in voter attitudes. Prior exposure to a female chief councilor improves perceptions of female leader effectiveness and weakens stereotypes about gender roles in the public and domestic spheres.
AB - We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female leader is associated with electoral gains for women. After ten years of quotas, women are more likely to stand for, and win, elected positions in councils required to have a female chief councilor in the previous two elections. We provide experimental and survey evidence on one channel of influence-changes in voter attitudes. Prior exposure to a female chief councilor improves perceptions of female leader effectiveness and weakens stereotypes about gender roles in the public and domestic spheres.
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U2 - 10.1162/qjec.2009.124.4.1497
DO - 10.1162/qjec.2009.124.4.1497
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:72449171503
SN - 0033-5533
VL - 124
SP - 1497
EP - 1540
JO - Quarterly Journal of Economics
JF - Quarterly Journal of Economics
IS - 4
ER -
