Special Event: Women and Public Policy Program

Date and Time

February 25, 2016
11:40AM - 01:00PM EST

Location

Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Building, WAPPP Cason Conference Room (102)

"Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe"

Speaker:

Mary C. Brinton, Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

This seminar explores the assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. Brinton analyzes over-time data from 18 European countries and identifies trajectories of attitudinal change. Brinton demonstrates that while traditional gender-role attitudes have precipitously and uniformly declined, European nations are not converging towards one dominant egalitarian model but instead are diverging across three distinct varieties of egalitarianism.

Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality and the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP), Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

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