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- Unlanded Class: Albania's Gender Gaps in Land Ownership and Inheritance – Edvin Zhllima, Dorina Pojani, Elvina Merkaj & Drini Imami
- In Albania, patriarchal customary laws disfavor women when it comes to property ownership, inheritance, and decision making.
- Women in rural societies, in particular, rely on custom and have low awareness of their legal property rights.
- Women who are more informed about formal laws view themselves as more equal to men.
- Where patriarchy is combined with poverty, gender inequality is exacerbated.
- Education and legal literacy are key to overcoming entrenched patriarchy and fostering women’s empowerment.
- Race/Ethnicity and Sex Differences in Attitudes Toward Policies for Gender Equality in the United States – Nabamallika Dehingia, Jeni Klugman, Elena Ortiz & Anita Raj
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- Attitudes are drivers of change when it comes to gender equality.
- In the US, there is majority support for gender equality, albeit with key gaps by race/ethnicity and sex.
- Women are more likely than men to hold egalitarian views.
- Men are more attached to traditional family roles for women, regardless of race.
- All men tend to relatively gain from patriarchal norms around paid and unpaid work.
- ‘The best job in the World’: Breadwinning and the capture of household labor in nineteenth and early twentieth-century british coalmining – Jane Humphries & Ryah Thomas
- Women's disempowerment in historical mining communities had adverse effects that persist today.
- Pit women's labor propped up profits and wages and discouraged infrastructure investment.
- Breadwinning secured increased leisure time and higher income for men not women.
- Hours and incomes of “double shift”” factory women compare favorably to pit women.
- Regeneration must confront the gendered identities embedded in ex-mining communities.
- Precarity of Subsistence: Social Reproduction Among South African Nurses – Jennifer Cohen
- Securely employed, professional women may have precarious lives.
- Familial dependency can induce precarity among black women employed in nursing in South Africa.
- South African nurses were distressed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Gendered value systems and norms contribute to precarious subsistence.
- Universal basic income could mitigate micro-level crises of social reproduction.
- Gender and Work Patterns in Indian Cities: A Socio-Spatial Analysis – Vamsi Vakulabharanam & Sripad Motiram
- Gender and city geographies mutually shape each other.
- Women’s labor force participation varies across and within Indian cities; men’s labor force participation is nearly uniform.
- Women’s paid work is higher in cities that have women-friendly transportation.
- Women’s paid work is higher in sub-city zones with superior transportation facilities for all.
- Policies that ease care or commuting burdens improve women’s participation in the labor force.