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Bridging the Gender Gap in Tertiary Education in Sub‑saharan Africa: Does Women Political Empowerment Matter?,
Discipline: Economie
Auteur(s): Issa Dianda Idrissa Ouedraogo Hamidou Sawadogo
Auteur(s) tagués: SAWADOGO Hamidou
Renseignée par : SAWADOGO Hamidou
Résumé

This paper investigates the effects of women political empowerment on the gender gap in tertiary education in a panel of 23 sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries over
the period 1997–2018. Ordinary least squares, two-stage least squares and quantiles via moments estimates are used for empirical analysis. The result shows that women
political empowerment bridges the gender gap in tertiary education. This narrowing effect is more important in democratic countries than in autocratic ones. In addition,
in fragile and conflict-affected countries, women political empowerment has a positive effect of gender parity in tertiary education but does not affect gender parity
in non-fragile and conflict-affected countries. Likewise, a better representation of women in parliament is almost twice as beneficial in terms of gender gap reduction
in tertiary education in middle-income countries than in low-income countries.
Moreover, women political empowerment fosters gender equality both in countries that are far from parity and those that are close to it. However, this equalizing effect
is more important in countries close to gender parity. Furthermore, women political empowerment has the potential to reduce gender inequality in tertiary education
while promoting the convergence of parity between countries in an environment where corruption is kept under control. The results imply that a better women
political representation appears to be a crucial ingredient in closing the gender gap in tertiary education and enabling SSA to benefit from the potential of all its citizens
for its development.

Mots-clés

Women’s political empowerment · Gender gap · Tertiary education · Sub-Saharan Africa

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