Bulletin n. 1/2017 | ||
June 2017 | ||
Ben-nuin Bloom Pazit, Gilad Sharon, Freedman Michael |
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Does exposure to other cultures affect the impact of economic globalization on gender equality? | ||
in International Political Science Review , vol. 38, n. 3, june , 2017 , 378-395 | ||
ABSTRACT: An extensive literature shows that economic globalization has a positive effect on gender equality. However, the effect varies greatly across countries and time. This article argues that social globalization – individuals’ exposure to external ideas, people, and information flows – and the changes in values associated with it – is a key boundary condition for the effect of economic globalization on women’s rights. While economic globalization opens up new opportunities for women, policy adaptation to these changes requires a social demand for efforts for change. Social globalization contributes to policy adaptation by exposing the public to alternative gender-role models, setting off a shift in values, which underlies support for gender equality. Results emerging from a time-series-cross-sectional analysis of 152 nations for the period 1990–2003 confirm that the positive effect of economic globalization on gender equality wanes at lower levels of social globalization. Further, multilevel-path-analyses models demonstrate how changes to individual-level values mediate the effect of globalization on individuals’ support for gender equality. | ||