Brulé’s Women, Power and Property Featured as Top Book of 2020
Women, Power, and Property: the Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India, the latest book by Rachel Brulé, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was featured in an Open list of best books of 2020.
Written by prominent political scientist and Open columnist Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the list calls Brulé’s book “a marvel of data collection, history and insight into the relationship between gender and the state.”
In Women, Power, and Property, 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 female elected leaders – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property.
Read the full list of Mehta’s top books on Open‘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 here.