Abstract
The aim of the article is to answer the question: what is the correlation between the level of democracy and the level of gender equality; and is there a variation in terms of gender equality due to different types of political regimes. The article consists of two parts. The first part of the article analyses the role of democracy in shaping gender equality attitudes. In the second part, the Pearson correlation coefficient method between gender equality and the level of democracy is examined. In the next stage, the analysis of the variance is carried out using the ANOVA method. It explains, with what probability the identified factors influence the differences between gender equality and political regimes. The result of the research shows that the type of democracy is critical to the gender equality index. Significant differences are found between:
– full democracy and flawed democracy, hybrid regime and authoritarian regime;
– flawed democracy and hybrid regime and authoritarian regime;
The lack of differentiation between a hybrid regime and an authoritarian state may be due to the conditioning of men’s lesser freedom in this kind of political regime, what influences more freedom and women’s rights.
Showing the contradictions and inconsistencies associated with the lax treatment of democratic principles has a significant impact on issues of compliance with standards related to gender equality. As it was proven in the article, it is very easy to ignore women’s rights by making them invisible. No less important is the marginalization of the problem. The article illustrates how women’s rights are not taken into account, and are even overlooked, during the process of building rankings of democracies. Therefore, the purpose of this article was to make the invisible visible, the marginal central and the trivial important.
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