Marianne Tøraasen
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Political scientist studying gender and politics, particularly gender representation in decision-making bodies (the judiciary and the legislature).
Marianne Tøraasen has a PhD in comparative politics and a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Bergen. In her PhD dissertation, Tøraasen studied women's judicial representation in fragile and conflict-affected states through an in-depth case study of the Haitian judiciary. The dissertation focused particularly on women judges' representative roles, access to and experiences on the bench, and how this is gendered. She spent several months in Haiti interviewing judges and other key informants (women and men) as part of the data collection.
For her master's thesis, Tøraasen conducted field work in Senegal to study the Senegalese gender parity law and its impact on women's symbolic representation in the National Assembly. Tøraasen has also led studies on specialized UN police teams' efforts to combat sexual and gender-based violence in Haiti, Sudan and South-Sudan. She is also working on the gender gap in political seniority in France and several African cases, and has participated in evaluations of Norwegian aid. Her academic work has been published in Social Politics, Journal of Modern African Studies and Politics & Gender. Tøraasen is currently coordinating the Rights & Gender research group at CMI.