Brulé Co-Edits Issue of “Seminar” on Political Representation of Women in India
Rachel Brulé, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has co-edited a new issue of Seminar in which she and fellow scholars seeks to provide a more nuanced view on women’s progress, impact, and remaining barriers faced in political office in contemporary India.
The online issue, titled “SHE RULES! A symposium on the political representation of women in India,” brings together scholars of India As scholars of representation with a combined experience of decades conducting research on and in India who provide a unique lens to investigate the vast, dynamic landscape of gender and the practice of (electoral) power in contemporary India.
Brulé also co-authored an article in the new issue of Seminar, titled “Are Husbands the Problem?” Drawing on their long-term study of Indian political institutions in several hundred villages since 2018, the authors posit that the hurdles women face in exercising their legally mandated roles in elected government can be reduced to a problem of sarpanch-patism, nor that sarpanch-patism constitutes the central limitation to the ability of female local officials to implement better policies. the full piece can be read here.
The full issue of Seminar can be read on the magazine’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 Professor Brulé on her faculty profile.