GDP Center Hosts Book Launch for Women, Power, and Property
On December 11, 2020, the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center, an affiliated regional center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a book launch for Rachel Brulé‘s latest book Women, Power, and Property: the Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India.
The book investigates the role of female elected local officials in fighting for gender equality and their ability to make property rights reforms relevant tools for women’s economic empowerment in India. The webinar was moderated by Patricia Cortes, Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative and Associate Professor at the Boston University Questrom School of Business.
Brulé showed that women’s political representation enables female citizens to demand enforcement of economic rights and women’s economic empowerment is not a zero-sum game: “New rights can make everyone better off, because they expand the pie of resources households have access to, if they enable daughters to negotiate.”
A recording of the book launch can be viewed below.
Learn more about Women, Power, and Property: the Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India on the GDP Center’s website.
Rachel Brulé is an Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and core faculty of the Global Development Policy Center’s Human Capital Initiative. Her research interests are broadly in comparative politics, international development, political economy, and gender, with a geographical focus on South Asia. Read more about her on her Pardee School faculty profile.