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Professor Manju Parikh receives Fulbright Grant
Professor Manju Parikh, Political Science, received a Fulbright award to conduct two months of research on women in Pakistan's legislature.
Professor Parikh’s research proposal for the Fulbright grant focuses on the expanding role of women in Pakistan’s government. To provide context for her research topic, she cites a number of causes for the focus on women in the modernization effort initiated in 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf, including the response to a United Nations convention on discrimination against women, and as legitimization of Musharraf’s administration, which had seized power in a coup three years earlier. One major change implemented by these reforms was to adopt a system of reserving seats for women in national and local parliament.
With the Fulbright grant, Professor Parikh plans to study the effects of such a change in Pakistan’s legislature through a case study of the passage of the “Protection of Women from Harassment Act”, a bill combating sexual harassment that is undergoing review in committees in the legislature.