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Patterns of Global Gender Inequalities and Regional Gender Regimes

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This article draws on data from various sources for 190 developed and developing nations and uses them to examine gender regimes, or forms of patriarchal structures, at the regional level. I argue for multiple, rather than single, measures of gender inequality and illustrate that using many inequality measures exposes a wider range of outcomes within the Global South than the North, also suggesting the inefficacy of this geographic dichotomy. Then I re-examine the outcomes with nations grouped into seven regions, showing that each region has different variables that define their gender inequalities. Finally, I link gendered social institutions (e.g., laws on violence/physical integrity, family codes, civil liberties, and ownership rights) and implicitly gendered political-economic structures (e.g., IMF debt, armed conflict, ever having been a colony, and electoral democracy) to gender-inequitable outcomes in six regions to reveal three different gender regimes across the regions.

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Series Title

GENDER & SOCIETY

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0891-2432

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NONE

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Volume 29, Issue 6 Desember 2015, pages 767-791

Subject(s)

Global gender inequality
Cross-national studies
Global North/Global South
Inequality indices

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