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Recent decades have seen a surge of research revealing the core, early emerging psychological building blocks for navigating human societies. Yet, how such core motives operate across life, undergirding political ideology, remains unknown. Here we...
This article presents the results of an experiment that investigates how knowledge of a speaker’s beliefs modulates people’s expectations of linguistic choices that person would make, specifically the use of the gender-neutral pronoun themto refer...
This article traces Laura Meneses’s anticolonial activism in defense of Puerto Rico’s independence through her shifting citizenship and hemispheric residences. Born a Peruvian citizen in 1894, Meneses became a U.S. citizen in 1922 upon marrying...
Despite more than three decades of European Union (EU) initiatives promoting gender equality in science and higher education, and the more recent positioning of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) as key instruments of institutional transformation,...
In this essay I consider Freud’s insights on the libidinal ties of groups, along with Lacan’s reconfiguration of the death drive to analyze the role of misogyny among men of the contemporary “manosphere,” noting in particular their simulated...
This volume honors the work of Dan Healey in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES), reflecting the full range of his research interests, from Soviet and Russian history of sexuality to the studies of medicine and the Gulag. The volume...
Introduction Women’s household decision-making autonomy is a fundamental dimension of empowerment and an important determinant of maternal health, reproductive agency, and household welfare. In fragile and conflict-affected settings such as Somalia,...
This study examines how the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) and nonprofit organizations jointly shape women’s organizations and roles within China’s evolving governance landscape. Drawing on 180 ACWF-endorsed projects (2023–2025), policy...
Gender disparities in academic careers remain pronounced, particularly in access to the highest ranks. This paper provides new evidence on these inequalities by modeling academic career progression as a dynamic process. Using a Markov multi-state...
Labour markets are responsible for large part of the levels of gender inequality present in the world and many countries enacted liberal reforms of their labour markets since the 1980s. The present empirical analysis aims at understanding their...
Contemporary workplaces grapple with new challenges, such as digitalization, workplace diversity, and a growing preference for non-traditional work arrangements. Such evolving workplaces present unique demands that call for androgynous leadership,...
How men view and explain household finances offers needed insight into family dynamics. This provides an understanding about practical strategies men utilize to manage a valued family resource, their perspective on gender and power dynamics within...
Women make up the majority of the global health workforce but remain underrepresented in leadership roles. Despite growing global attention to gender equity in leadership, evidence on the factors shaping women’s career progression and their...
Climate change disproportionately affects women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where entrenched gender roles shape vulnerability and response capacities. Many women are often responsible for post-disaster clean-up, caregiving for...
The UN’s ���Pact for the Future” (PFF) positions gender equality and women’s political participation as critical for sustainable development. However, its effective implementation in the Middle East—a region marked by complex socio-political and...
The field of dermatology and gender inclusivity are inextricably linked, as women have comprised most of the US dermatology workforce since 2021. Still, only 7% of American Academy of Dermatology presidents to date are women. To study the...
This study examines the link between national family-friendly policies and gender differences in access to career development opportunities inside organizations. Drawing on Rawls’s principle of fair equality of opportunity, we argue that unequal...
Background Women comprise 70% of the health workforce worldwide. The majority of frontline healthcare providers, caregivers, and care deciders are women. However, they remain a minority in global health leadership, and their critical role in health...
This article puts forward the view that without realistic recognition and engagement with women’s informal social networks in work and community, support for education for adaptation to climate change will remain limited. Drawing from 120 surveys...
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Sex Roles: A Journal of Researchis a global, multidisciplinary, scholarly, social and behavioral science journal with a feminist perspective. It...
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Created in 1957, Development, the journal of the Society for International Development, aims to: provide unique resource and point of reference for...
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Gender Issues is interdisciplinary and cross-national in scope focusing on gender and gender equity. The journal publishes basic and applied...
