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"Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe"
Speaker:
Mary C. Brinton, Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
This seminar explores the assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. Brinton analyzes over-time data from 18 European countries and identifies trajectories of attitudinal change. Brinton demonstrates that while traditional gender-role attitudes have precipitously and uniformly declined, European nations are not converging towards one dominant egalitarian model but instead are diverging across three distinct varieties of egalitarianism.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality and the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP), Harvard Kennedy School.
Contact:
Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu
