Global Ecology and Geography of Gender Equality.
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| Názov: | Global Ecology and Geography of Gender Equality. |
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| Autori: | Van de Vliert E; University of Groningen, The Netherlands., Kluwer ES; Utrecht University, The Netherlands.; Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. |
| Zdroj: | Personality & social psychology bulletin [Pers Soc Psychol Bull] 2025 Dec; Vol. 51 (12), pp. 2359-2373. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 10. |
| Spôsob vydávania: | Journal Article; Historical Article |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Informácie o časopise: | Publisher: Sage Publications for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7809042 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1552-7433 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 01461672 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Pers Soc Psychol Bull Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc Original Publication: Columbus, Ohio [etc.] Behavioral Sciences Laboratory [etc.] |
| Výrazy zo slovníka MeSH: | Gender Equity*/history , Ecosystem*, Humans ; Female ; Male ; Geography |
| Abstrakt: | Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Proximal socio-economic drivers of gender equality tend to obscure its remote ecological origins. General systems theory predicts that the greater annual variability in daylength, temperature, and daily precipitation at higher latitudes requires greater psychosocial flexibility. We extend this prediction to gender equality as a likely consequence. Accordingly, for 87 pre-industrial societies after 1500 CE, we find more gender equality in more variable habitats, and that this link is mediated by greater subsistence flexibility-foraging rather than raising plants and animals. Mutatis mutandis, these ecological predictors of global gender equality replicate in 175 modern countries after 2000 CE. Gender equality was, and still is, lowest around the Equator, higher toward the North and South Poles, and invariant in east-west direction. The geographical positioning of gender equality in pre-industrial times can predict over 40% of the opposite north-south gradients of gender equality in the opposite Northern and Southern Hemispheres today. |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: gender equality; habitat variability; pre-industrial; subsistence flexibility |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20240510 Date Completed: 20251104 Latest Revision: 20251104 |
| Update Code: | 20251104 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01461672241237383 |
| PMID: | 38725385 |
| Databáza: | MEDLINE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.<br />Proximal socio-economic drivers of gender equality tend to obscure its remote ecological origins. General systems theory predicts that the greater annual variability in daylength, temperature, and daily precipitation at higher latitudes requires greater psychosocial flexibility. We extend this prediction to gender equality as a likely consequence. Accordingly, for 87 pre-industrial societies after 1500 CE, we find more gender equality in more variable habitats, and that this link is mediated by greater subsistence flexibility-foraging rather than raising plants and animals. Mutatis mutandis, these ecological predictors of global gender equality replicate in 175 modern countries after 2000 CE. Gender equality was, and still is, lowest around the Equator, higher toward the North and South Poles, and invariant in east-west direction. The geographical positioning of gender equality in pre-industrial times can predict over 40% of the opposite north-south gradients of gender equality in the opposite Northern and Southern Hemispheres today. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-7433 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01461672241237383 |