Our next talk will be held by Dr Alice Evans who will explain why some societies are more gender equal than others through her book “The Great Gender Divergence”.

"In South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, men provide for their families while women are supposed to stay away from unrelated men. Chinese and Russian women work, but remain governed by men. Latin America has undergone radical transformation, staging massive rallies against male violence and nearly achieving gender parity in political representation. Scandinavia still comes closest to a feminist utopia, but for most of history Europe was far more patriarchal than matrilineal South East Asia and Southern Africa.

What explains “The Great Gender Divergence”?"

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 2.00 pm, Sala del Consiglio, Building B - School of Economics.