Eroding Patriarchy: The Co-evolution of Women's Rights and Emancipative Values
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in: International Review of Sociology, Jahrgang 25, Nr. 1, 02.01.2015, S. 144-165.
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T1 - Eroding Patriarchy
T2 - The Co-evolution of Women's Rights and Emancipative Values
AU - Alexander, Amy
AU - Welzel, Christian
PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - Some scholars find that top-down improvements in women's rights increase societies' value of gender equality at the grassroots, creating pressure for more adoption and enforcement. Others claim that the extension of women's rights is strongly dependent on value change at the grassroots, operating largely as a bottom-up process. We find that top-down and bottom-up dynamics are mutually reinforcing, creating a co-evolutionary dynamic in women's empowerment. We evaluate the rights/values dynamic with data on as many countries as possible, trace their changes over the longest time span available, and analyze their reciprocal relationship in both directions of impact. This is the first analysis that is at the same time (1) comparative across a diverse, global set of nations; (2) dynamic in looking at change in rights and values over time; (3) bidirectional in analyzing the interplay in both directions of impact; and, (4) controlled for relevant ‘third’ changes.
AB - Some scholars find that top-down improvements in women's rights increase societies' value of gender equality at the grassroots, creating pressure for more adoption and enforcement. Others claim that the extension of women's rights is strongly dependent on value change at the grassroots, operating largely as a bottom-up process. We find that top-down and bottom-up dynamics are mutually reinforcing, creating a co-evolutionary dynamic in women's empowerment. We evaluate the rights/values dynamic with data on as many countries as possible, trace their changes over the longest time span available, and analyze their reciprocal relationship in both directions of impact. This is the first analysis that is at the same time (1) comparative across a diverse, global set of nations; (2) dynamic in looking at change in rights and values over time; (3) bidirectional in analyzing the interplay in both directions of impact; and, (4) controlled for relevant ‘third’ changes.
KW - Politics
KW - Demokratieforschung
KW - Politische Kulturforschung
KW - Gender
KW - development
KW - diffuse effects
KW - emancipative
KW - values
KW - social movements
KW - symbolic effects
KW - value change
KW - women's rights
KW - Gender and Diversity
KW - development
KW - diffuse effects
KW - emancipative values
KW - social movements
KW - symbolic effects
KW - value change
KW - women's rights
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84922420756&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03906701.2014.976949
DO - 10.1080/03906701.2014.976949
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 25
SP - 144
EP - 165
JO - International Review of Sociology
JF - International Review of Sociology
SN - 0390-6701
IS - 1
ER -