Women's Protest and Health in the International Sphere
Open Access
Author:
Vanness, Marisa
Area of Honors:
International Politics
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type:
Thesis
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Lee Ann Banaszak, Thesis Supervisor Dr. Gretchen G Casper, Thesis Honors Advisor
Keywords:
women protest health children WHO
Abstract:
Protest has been researched within the context of social movements as a part of their
policy successes and capacity to appeal to public opinion. I gathered protest events from the year
2007 to run statistical analyses to determine if there was a correlation between women’s protest
and health outcomes of women and children in 26 countries. The results indicated that there were
no significant relationships between women’s protest and health outcomes for these countries,
however there were also no significant relationships between the controls and chosen health
outcomes. I conclude that women’s protest did not predict health improvements, but these were
also not affected by increased wealth (as measured by gross domestic product), religiosity,
women’s empowerment (as measured by the percentage of women in parliament), or regime
type
