1. WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? GENDER, GOVERNMENTS AND GRADUATES

2. THE QUESTION

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8. WHY? Development in a country Motives in lower-income countries are less Quotas Civic Participation Private Sector Experience Willingness To Run

9. ACTUAL QUESTION Does female education change women’s representation in governments?

10. HYPOTHESIS

11. Increased representation of females in college level education  Increased representation of females in national parliaments

12. METHOD

13. DATA WDI Independent Variable 4,000 Observations of Tertiary Education Ratios Dependent Variable 3,000 Observations of Parliamentary Ratios

14. GENERAL INFO 91 females for every 100 males with tertiary level education Standard Deviation: 59.58 Minimum: 0 Maximum: 689.3 (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) 14% of parliamentary occupied by females Standard Deviation: 10.3 Minimum: 0 Max: 56.3 (Rwanda)

15. CHALLENGES Gender Ratios GDP and Development Social Biases

16. ADDRESSING CHALLENGES More on this soon Open to suggestions

17. RWANDA, UGANDA, SWEDEN, KUWAIT, HONDURAS CASE STUDIES

18. RESULTS

19. CORRELATION College RatioParliament Ratio College Ratio1 Parliament Ratio0.09661

20. REGRESSION College Ratio Coefficie nt Standar d Error tP > |t|95% Conf. Lower 95% Conf. Upper Parliament Ratio.486.1273.830.000.238.735 _cons103.5672.36643.770.00098.926108.208

21. MORE RESULTS COMING SOON!

22. QUANTUM CONCLUSION BOTH RIGHT AND WRONG

23. WHAT TO EXPECT Promising Data but selection problems

24. IF RIGHT Current Approaches Political Changes Funding Awareness Solution Education = Starting Point

25. IF WRONG New Approach Don’t make Women better Leaders Make people better voters

26. WHY DO WE CARE

27. EQUITABLE GOVERNMENT -> EQUITABLE SOCIETIES Female Friendly Social Policies? Overall Education Healthcare