Trends in Global Gender Inequality (Forthcoming, Social Forces).
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2010-07-01T00:00:00Z
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Firebaugh, Glenn
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Copyright 2010 The University of North Carolina Press
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This study investigates trends in gender inequality for the world as a whole. Using data encompassing a large majority of the world's population, we examine world trends over recent decades for key indicators of gender inequality in education, mortality, political representation, and economic activity. We find that gender inequality is declining in virtually all major domains, that the decline is occurring across diverse religious and cultural traditions, and that population growth is slowing the decline because populations are growing faster in countries where there is the greatest gender inequality.
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This is a manuscript of an article published as Dorius, Shawn F., and Glenn Firebaugh. "Trends in global gender inequality." Social Forces 88, no. 5 (2010): 1941-1968. doi: 10.1353/sof.2010.0040. Posted with permission.