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How Does I slamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women?
Author(s) -
Blaydes Lisa
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.46
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1468-0491
pISSN - 0952-1895
DOI - 10.1111/gove.12054
Subject(s) - disadvantage , affect (linguistics) , politics , adjudication , corporate governance , psychological intervention , political science , militant , demographic economics , psychology , social psychology , demography , sociology , business , economics , law , psychiatry , communication , finance
How do women fare under rule by I slamists? Whereas some scholarly work suggests that I slamists are effective at providing the type of social services that benefit women most, other studies contend that I slamic groups support “pro‐male” policies and cultural interventions that disadvantage the well‐being of women. I n order to adjudicate between these views, I compare two neighborhoods in G reater C airo that are similar on a number of dimensions but in one, a militant I slamist group came to dominate local politics, whereas in the other, strongmen ruled the streets in the absence of a strong state presence. Using an original data set of retrospective health histories for women in each neighborhood, I find that women subject to governance by the I slamic group enjoyed better outcomes related to reproductive health than a statistically matched set of women in the comparable neighborhood while being no more likely to marry early or drop out of school.