By Ronald Inglehart
The 20th century gave upward push to profound alterations in conventional intercourse roles. This examine unearths how modernization has replaced cultural attitudes in the direction of gender equality and analyzes the political results. It systematically compares attitudes in the direction of gender equality around the world, evaluating nearly 70 international locations, starting from wealthy to bad, agrarian to postindustrial. This quantity is key analyzing to achieve a greater figuring out of concerns in comparative politics, public opinion, political habit, improvement and sociology.
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33 The rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution brought challenges to traditional values and a worldview that encouraged achieved Introduction 17 rather than ascribed status, individualism rather than community, innovation instead of continuity with tradition, and increasingly secular rather than religious social beliefs. The traditional roles of women – taking prime responsibility for care of children and the elderly – continued, but during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries more and more women in industrial societies entered the paid labor force, mainly in factories and white-collar clerical and retail jobs, and attained greater legal rights to own property, to divorce, and to vote.
11 Overall, the mean score on the 100-point scale was 80 percent for postindustrial societies, compared to 68 percent for industrial nations and 60 percent for agrarian societies. S. dollars). 54). 2. Gender Equality Scale and economic development. 1. Logged per capita GDP 1998: see UNDP. Human Development Report 2000. New York: Oxford University Press/UNDP. Source: Pooled WVS/EVS, 1995–2001. From Traditional Roles toward Gender Equality 35 nations, with the important exception of Japan, are clustered in the top right-hand corner, as most strongly in favor of gender equality and also most affluent.
New York: Oxford University Press/UNDP. Source: Pooled WVS/EVS, 1995–2001. From Traditional Roles toward Gender Equality 35 nations, with the important exception of Japan, are clustered in the top right-hand corner, as most strongly in favor of gender equality and also most affluent. A range of industrial societies cluster in the middle of the distribution, with Latin American nations such as Colombia and Venezuela more egalitarian in their attitudes toward sex roles than post-Communist societies such as Poland, Belarus, and Russia.