The Women and Peace Hypothesis in the Age of Nancy Pelosi: Can Female Leaders Bring About World Peace?

<p>The women and peace hypothesis suggests that women are more likely than men to choose peace and compromise over violent conflict, whether as ordinary citizens or as government leaders. I test this concept by analyzing the percent of women in the parliaments and executive cabinets of 93 nations over a 31-year-period, comparing these figures to the presence of violent interstate conflicts for each country-year. Controlling for wealth, democratic status, national capabilities, military expenditures, and contiguity, I find moderate support for the women and peace hypothesis. This support continues when democratic system type is interacted with the measured office. While women do not affect a nation’s likelihood of violent conflict to the same degree that other, well-documented predictors do, the effect of women in higher office is nonetheless still significant.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Year

2011

Author dc:creator

• Haynie, Jeannette

Contributors dc:contributor

• Huelshoff, Michael
• Day, Christine
• Frank, Richard

• women, leadership, violent conflict, peace hypothesis, war, feminism
• Other Political Science

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1399

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2349