Sitemap - 2023 - The Great Gender Divergence

Economic Development & Cultural Change

Exit, Voice & Loyalty

Why do Poor Indian Women Reject Office Jobs?

Discrimination and Despondency Traps

How has Central Asia's Religious Revival shaped Gender Relations?

Did Forced Resettlement promote Cultural Tolerance and Assimilation?

How Repression Crushes Social Critique

How Male-Dominated Networks Lock Women Out

How does Culture suppress Women's Economic Advancement?

What Motivates Wifely Obedience?

The Patrilocal Trap

Obedience to Mothers-in-Law. Insights from Central Asia

“The Patriarchal Political Order” by Sole Prillaman (Review).

Trust, Technology, Respect & Kindness - as research foundations

Are Robots Replacing Women?

Books on the Global History of Gender

Superb New Books

Has the Ageing Crisis promoted Gender Equality?

The Emergence of Chinese Feminist Consciousness

Why has Female Employment Fallen in China?

What explains China's cultural heterogeneity?

My Tiny Textbook on International Development

"A Dayooth is not a Real Man"

China's Economic Slowdown & Social Media

Why is North-Central India more Conservative?

Hire Alice Evans

Glorifying Sacrifice

Rose-Tinted Patriarchy

How Daron Acemoglu Sees the World

Patriarchal Resurgence in Central Asia

"City of Men" by Romit Chowdhury (Review)

Democratisation -> Women Ministers

Ideals of Seclusion in 1900s China

"Politicising Islam in Central Asia" by Kathleen Collins (Review)

Televising Male Disapproval

The Power of TV

Sexism in the USA

Claudia Goldin: Nobel

Job Flexibility for Fathers!

Did MENA's weak exit options enable religious authoritarianism?

Research by PhD students: upcoming series

Did female driving increase Saudi patriarchy?

Progressive Laws trigger Backlash

Cousin Marriage & Islam

What explains the global religious divergence?

The Economics of Resentment

Can Laws undo Sexism?

Has the World Become More Gender Equal? Why Not?

What the Inuit teach us about Gender Equality

Celebrating Masculinity

Stopping Sexual Harassment

“The Two-Parent Privilege” by Melissa Kearney (review)

Can We End Alcohol Abuse?

Why does Kinship Vary across the World?

How to Study the Rise of the Far Right?

Why are Gender Pay Gaps so Large in Japan and South Korea?

Confidence, Competitiveness and Institutions

How does Rural Prosperity affect Marriages in Bangladesh?

Extreme Floods worsen Early Marriage & Early Motherhood

The East Asian Miracle (for women)

Does Emigration foster Conservatism?

How can rich countries promote gender equality in development cooperation?

Does Fiction Foster Empathy?

Can Social Media undo Sexism?

Culture and jobs in Asia

"Freedoms Delayed" by Timur Kuran (review)

"Putin vs. The People" by Greene and Robertson (review)

The Origins of States

Wartime Patriarchs

Did Gulags turn Russians Anti-Gay?

Does Patriarchal Policing Suppress Innovation?

Has Latin America's endemic corruption increased support for women leaders?

What does "Barbie" get wrong about patriarchy?

The Rise of the Right in Southern Europe

"Conquest & Rents" by Faisal Ahmed (Review)

Working-Class Men's Patriarchal Nostalgia

Queens of the Arabs

What Catalysed Imperial Expansion & Female Seclusion in Assyria?

Attacks on Women who Rise Up

The Economic & Cultural Drivers of Violence

Does Patriarchy Suppress Cognitive Development?

Why was Ancient Nubia less controlling than Ancient Egypt?

The Roots of Cooperation

Why are East Asians culturally tight collectivists?

Why has Latin American female employment risen in the absence of growth?

Power and Progress: A Conversation with Daron Acemoglu

Have house prices pushed up female employment?

Lead Poisoning must be Tackled, Worldwide

Reverse Dominance Coalitions

“Violent Intimacy” by Tiantian Zhen

Why don’t men want so many kids?

What is Patriarchy?

Paternity leave (in feminist Spain) promotes gender equality among children. This may be due to changes in men's brains

Economic Precarity & Cultural Persistence

How Culture Normalises Patriarchy

How Popular is Andrew Tate? And Why?

Depression and low fertility. Coincidence?

How might Generative AI affect patriarchy?

What can Google Trends tell us about secularisation and masculinity in the US, Mexico and India?

Is there a Crisis of Masculinity?

Why isn't Canada a feminist utopia?

The Motherhood Penalty

Does rising income inequality fuel female employment?

The Decline of the Male Breadwinner and Persistence of the Female Carer

A Unified Theory of Marriage

Why do some U.S. women hate feminism?

Sexual Competition, Social Media & Algorithms

REVIEW: "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our Worlds" by Michele Gelfand

Is joblessness fuelling hostile sexism worldwide?

The Great Gender Divergence

What are the evolutionary origins of homophobia?

Why are Most Comedians Male?

Did Alpha Male Alliances Institutionalise Patriarchy over 300,000 years ago?