Blog 1 Assignment For Blog 1, you must collect and organize data for a comparative case study project on two nation-states, one CEDAW OP party and one CEDAW party that is not a CEDAW OP party. The data will provide the foundation for your Final Research Paper. The goal is to identify and compare factors you think might be related to differences among nation-states on their level of commitment to CEDAW. Being an OP party is here used as a critical indicator and mobilizer of higher commitment.

You will find a number of websites linked below that should make the data collection task easy. Choose the nation-states carefully and then select data that you think will result in a meaningful set of comparisons. Below are suggestions for possible topics and data collection. Several are topics for later weeks in the course. See the table on the next page for ideas

• Constitutional rights, • Dominant religion,

• Age of marriage, • Literacy,

• GII, • GPP,

• Women’s level of education,• Women’s political and economic rights,

• Women’s labor force participation, • Percent of women in parliament, • Religious freedom. • NGOs.

Status of CEDAW and CEDAW OP:http://indicators.ohchr.org

Reservations: IV-8.en.pdf Global Gender Equality Constitutional Data Base:https://constitutions.unwomen.org/en

Gender Inequality Index: http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/gender-inequality-i…

TheARDA: (Religion and Other Comparative Data): http://www.thearda.com/internationalData/

NGO Knowledge Collection Data Base: ngoknowledgecollective.org

Sample Dummy Table below

Country A –CEDAW OP Party Country B-Not a CEDAW OP Party

Entered Reservations

Global Inequality Index

Dominant Religion1

Share of Seats in Parliament2

Labor Force Participation Rates3

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1 http://www.thearda.com/internationalData/

2 http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/GII

3 http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/GII