Government corruption lower in countries with more women in political leadership - Polidicks

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/394598-government-corruption-lower-in-countries-with-more-women-in Government corruption is less prevalent in countries where there is a greater number of women in political leadership roles, according to a new study released by Virginia Tech on Thursday. The study looked at more 125 countries, which were selected by random, and included major democracies like the United States.Sudipta Sarangi, the head of the Department of Economics at Virginia Tech’s College of Science said in a press release that the new research “underscores the importance of women empowerment, their presence in leadership roles, and their representation in government.” “It is especially important in light of the fact that women remain underrepresented in politics in most countries, including the United States,” Sarangi continued. According to Sarangi and Chandan Kumar Jha, an assistant professor of finance at Le Moyne College in New York who also conducted the study, regions where a greater number of women hold leadership roles have a lower likelihood of bribery, especially in Europe at local-level politics. “Women policymakers are able to have an impact on corruption because they choose different policies from men. An extensive body of prior research shows women politicians choose policies that are more closely related to the welfare of women, children, and family,” Sarangi said. The two researchers also looked at women who held leadership roles in the labor force, clerical field and the corporate world. “The study finds that women’s presence in these occupations is not significantly associated with corruption, suggesting that it is the policymaking role through which women are able to have an impact on corruption,” Sarangi continued. Though the researchers warn that results from the study do not indicate that every women holding decision-making positions are inherently less corrupt, they inferred from their data that the ratio of more women in political leadership role to less corruption in government is maintained in multiple countries.

IMO is it correlation. Countries with women in political positions tend to be more developed and more developed countries tend to be less corrupt.

Could this not just be because the types of states with more gender equality are also the types of states that tend to have strong anti-corruption mechanisms?

So i guess old men aren't the future after all? I like how they picked Stacy Abrams as shes D runner for governor for my state vs racist old southern white dude #10035. The current governor is eh with being a moderate repub and certainly better than the R runner, but He had tons of scandals about corruption. Then theres Atlanta's mayor that got busted recently when he left office for giving half a million dollars in christmas bonuses. All the money came from state tax, and the tax for the bonus was paid by the state tax too. http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/i-team/518000-in-bonuses-paid-out-during-mayor-kasim-reeds-last-year GA has an extremely bad corruption problem on all branches though.

Crazy, countries that don't hoard power to one group are less corrupt

They're equally as much the future as young women.

Yeah, all 17 of them

Sure wish you had put more effort into this post because the only real thing to infer is that you think there are only 17 old women in the world, which is obviously not what you think.

No, that's really meant to say all 17 women in political power

I fail to see what the present amount of women in political power has to do with whether or not old men will have an equal say in society in the future.

I would love to read the study, but it's paywalled. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268118300933?showall%3Dtrue%26via%3Dihub)

I think it's correlation, but is a good symptom. Imo, the most important counter to corruption is society itself, its institutions, and what people will put up with. Egalitarian thinking seems to be a part of that (less susceptible to manipulation.)

I have access to it through my university VPN. I just read the conclusion for now. They note that having a higher number of women in the workforce itself does not correlate with decreased corruption. However, they seem to be pretty fixated on the idea that having more women in political leadership roles reduces corruption through policy decisions, and they do not consider the possibility that having a higher number of women in government may actually be a symptom of lower corruption altogether. So @smurfy and @Fulcrum 's points are very valid criticism of the study.

I meant a deus ex reference btw.