Women changing policy outcomes: Learning from pro-women legislation in the Ugandan Parliament

Tracing Gender Differences in Parliamentary Debates: A Growth Curve Analysis of Ugandan Mps’ Activity Levels in Plenary Sessions, 1998–2008

“…Why women in leadership positions outperform male leaders in parliament is puzzling. Possible explanations could relate to female MPs having become more organised than male counterparts in advance of chamber sessions (Wang 2013).…”

Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get Implemented?

“…In addition, women CSOs played an important role in that country to successfully lobby for the adoption of gender quotas (Bauer and Burnet, 2013). In Uganda, the strength of women's organizations and the relationships between civil society actors and pro-women MPs are seen as essential for the successful advancement of legislation benefiting women (Wang, 2013).…”

“…The presence of women in this critical political institution could affect development outcomes in several ways: for example, women parliamentarians could put women's issues on the political agenda, argue for the adoption of policies that address these issues, or allocate more money from the budget for specific programs that benefit women. There is ample evidence that many of the women who have joined the ranks of African parliaments have taken just such actions (Bauer and Burnet, 2013;Devlin and Elgie, 2008;Johnson and Josefsson, 2016;Yoon, 2011;Wang, 2013).…”

Revisiting gender equality at times of recession: a discussion of the strategies of gender and politics scholarship for dealing with equality

“…While the concept of woman/women-friendly policies is seen as strong on metaphors, but weak on analytical capacity, it is still widely used. With its universal and essentialist connotation, it functions best when research does not question explicitly to what degree women's needs or interests are common (see Vickers 2011, Wang 2013, Curtin 2014).…”