What's Spain's Feminist Secret?
Female employment and political representation have skyrocketed in Iberia. Pioneering the world's first majority-female cabinet, Spain is now the 14th...
Rocking Our Priors
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Dr Alice Evans meets with leading experts to discuss global politics and inequalities. Topics include economic development, democratisation, social movements, and gender inequality. Alice is a Lecturer at King's College London, and Faculty Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Is xenophobia fuelling female empowerment in the Gulf?
The Middle East is renowned for female seclusion, cousin marriage, and discriminatory family laws. Gulf countries are especially conservative, but hav...
How did East Asia overtake South Asia in gender equality?
Circa 1900, women in East Asia and South Asia were equally oppressed and unfree. But over the course of the 20th century, gender equality in East Asia...
Will the BJP save Muslim women?
Indian Muslims have always been free to apply their own personal laws - concerning marriage, divorce and inheritance. Congress upheld legal pluralism,...
Did Irrigation Entrench the Patriarchy?
In a fascinating new paper, Per Fredriksson and Satyendra Gupta find that areas with low irrigation potential have higher female labour force particip...
Why Do Gender Inequalities Persist? The Importance of Beliefs!
Gender inequalities can persist alongside economic development. This is partly due to gender beliefs. Seldom seeing egalitarian alternatives or succes...
What Thwarts Feminist Activism in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia?
Across the world, women have agitated for greater rights, freedoms, and protections, but with differing degrees of success. In some countries, feminis...
Why is Feminist Activism Thriving in Latin America?
Argentina has just legalised abortion - thanks to relentless feminist activism. Latin America can now boast rapid social change: with rising female em...
Why are North & South India so Different on Gender?
Everyone knows that Southern and Northern India are very different in culture, language, and socio-economic development. But the most dramatic regiona...
"The WEIRDest People in The World": Professor Joe Henrich
Professor Joe Henrich (Harvard) presents his new book on 'how Westerners became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous'. He suggests tha...