dw-data/women-power-africa

Data, code and methodology for our story on women in power in Africa and its impact on gender equality # How has an increase in the number of women lawmakers impacted gender equality in Africa? The number of female representatives has increased since 2000 in parliaments across Africa. Has this positively changed the lives of women? Idea, data analysis and visualization: Ana Muñoz Padrós Interviews: Facilited by Jean-Michel Bos and conducted by Ana Muñoz Padrós Contribution to reporting: Jean-Michel Bos Writing: Ana Muñoz Padrós Editing: Gianna-Carina Grün, Dirke Köpp, Milan Gagnon Read the full articles on DW.com: English # Definition of parameters ## Countries The selection of African countries has followed the UNSD overview. ## Gender equality markers Data from all markers has been collected from the World Bank group , as well as trusted sources used by the World Bank, including International IDEA and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) ### Parliament quotas Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber held by women. We have followed the definitions and categorisations of gender quotas established by International IDEA : - Legislated Candidate Quotas: This quota provision reserves a number of places on electoral lists for female candidates. - Reserved seats: Reserves a number of seats in a legislated assembly for women. - Voluntary Political Party Quota: These are rules or targets set by political parties to include a certain percentage of women as election candidates. This does not include quotas for internal party structures. ### Other markers Following our hypothesis, we set out our analysis to find correlations between the number of women in parliament and different gender equality markers. These were selected from United Nations SDG 4 (education) and SDG 5 (gender equality). They can be grouped into three axes: education, financial independence, and sexual and bodily autonomy. - 'youth literacy': Gender parity index for youth literacy rate is the ratio of females to males ages 15-24 who …