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Sunday, August 20, 2017
A new paper: Gender: An Historical Perspective
A new paper by Paola Giuliano
Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This
chapter reviews recent empirical research on various historical
determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps
across societies, and how these
differences are transmitted from parents to children and therefore
persist until today. We review work on the historical origin of
differences in female labor-force participation, fertility, education,
marriage arrangements, competitive attitudes, domestic
violence, and other forms of difference in gender norms. Most of the
research illustrates that differences in cultural norms regarding gender
roles emerge in response to specific historical situations, but tend to
persist even after the historical conditions
have changed. We also discuss the conditions under which gender norms
either tend to be stable or change more quickly.
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