Some new research featured in the NYT on the gender gap contends counterintuitively that more traditional societies have smaller gender differences than modern ones.
For evolutionary psychologists, the bad news is that the size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures. For social-role psychologists, the bad news is that the variation is going in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'gender roles and division of labour'
‘Progress’=widening gender gap?
September 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: culture · gender bias · gender roles and division of labour · human development
India’s female politicians
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments
The TOI has an interesting response to Sarah Palin’s nomination: the examination of political tokenism of women in India.
“A patriarchal ethos dominates both the societies, American and Indian, but they operate in different ways. In India, despite the patriarchal ethos, powerful women leaders have emerged,” says political scientist Imtiaz Ahmed.
The most famous examples are BSP [...]
Tags: GOI · Renuka Chowdhury · culture · empowerment · gender bias · gender roles and division of labour · leadership · politics
Mahila on motorbikes
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Besides the horrible way this article refers to the actresses, I just wanted to highlight that two upcoming films will be featuring women on motorcycles, and here’s what they have to say about it:
“Riding a bike was liberating. It was something I always wanted to do — it’s feminine, fiesty and fun. The thrill of [...]
Tags: empowerment · gender roles and division of labour · media · mobility
Not for the faint-hearted: TOI on sexual lib
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
The O-zone on Sunday covered the new trend among 20-30 something women, most of whom are still single, going all out for one-night stands and no strings attached.
Sexcapades of young women, their casual attitude towards flings and open declaration that sex is just a physical need like any other, lead one to wonder how this [...]
Tags: culture · economic development · empowerment · gender roles and division of labour · globalisation · health · human development · marriage/divorce · media · reproduction and repro rights · sex and sexuality
Harrassment, etc
August 26th, 2008 · No Comments
The Washington Post had an in-depth piece on Indian women’s status. It starts off discussing ‘eve-teasing’, i.e. harrassment, but then delves into the whole range of issues from dowry to sex-selective abortion:
For India’s middle-class urban women, the past decade has brought unprecedented opportunities to advance in a social order long dominated by men. But a [...]
Tags: activism · culture · dowry · economic development · empowerment · gender bias · gender roles and division of labour · girl child · globalisation · mobility · sex and sexuality · trade · violence against women/harrassment


















