countries in lac tend to have ratified the convention earlier than countries in other regions discriminatory attitudes also vary across regions one person in four declares that men make better political leader than women do in lac one third in ssa and oecd countries and about one in two in eap and eca genderbiased attitudes towards political leadership are widespread in sa and mena where and of the population respectively underestimated womens political leadership to address this question we start by investigating the relationship between the genderbased discrimination in social institutions captured by the sigi and income per capita measured by gdp per capita