Ranjana Mukherjee

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Gender and Corruptionin the Public Sector

• Perceptions of Public Officials from Six
  Developing and Transition Countries

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Question

• Is the proportion of women employed in public
  organizations connected with their level of
  corruption?

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On corruption and gender

• 2 studies showthe larger the proportion of
  women in work force, the greater the
  representation of women in parliament, in
  ministerial / high level government positions,
  the lower is the level of corruption

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Survey Question about corruption 1. Severity,
and2. Chances of being reported

• Some consider that one of the main problems
  affecting the performance of the Government and
  its structures is corruption. How important is
  this problem in your organization?
• Very important
• Relatively important
• Of little importance
• Not important at all

• In general, how often are cases of corruption
  reported to proper authorities?
• Always
• Frequently
• Sometimes
• Never

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Responses of 3,927 officials from 90
organizations
 
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Findings across countries
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Findings across countries
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Public officials perceptions of corruption
versus TI-2001 Corruption Perception Indices
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Findings within countrydoes an organizations
corruption depend upon the proportion of women
employees?
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Findings Pooled OrganizationsCONTROLLING
COUNTRY AND ORGANIZATION SPECIFIC -EFFECTS

• Regression result
• Level of Corruption
• Constant
• - 0.80 TRANSITION
• 1.73 Policy Implementing
• - 9.19 FEMALE
• 11.68 FEMALE2

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Measuring all surveyed organizations corruption
indices on the same scale

• Officials descriptive responses were converted
  to a numerical scale of 0 to 10,where 0 good
  i.e. no corruption and 10 bad, i.e. highly
  corrupt
• FORMULA 1 (for 4 responses)
• CORRUPTION INDEX organization-i 40/3 10/3
  (Average response organization-i )
• FORMULA 2 (for 3 responses)
• CORRUPTION INDEX organization-i 15 5 (Average
  response organization-i )

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Findings pooled organizations
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Findings pooled organizations