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Assistant Professor, Political Science, Stanford University

Soledad Artiz Prillaman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University in 2017. She has worked for the past decade on research related to gender, political behaviour, and policy provision in India and South Asia and she has conducted research with EPoD since 2014 on projects related to women’s labour force participation and vocational training in India.

Broadly, her research aims to gain a deeper understanding of how and when the voices of women are represented in politics and policy. She has authored the forthcoming book titled ‘The Patriarchal Political Order: The making and unravelling of the gendered political participation gap in India’ that explains why women in rural India participate less in politics and identifies the mechanisms through which the prevailing gender gap in political participation can be reduced.

She has done various evaluation studies to understand the mechanisms by which the state is strengthened through increased political integration of women in India by detailing the often-unconsidered consequences of development interventions for political behaviour and local politics. https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/soledad-artiz-prillaman