Crudely, there are 3 kinds of society:
- Seclusion patriarchies
- Fraternal patriarchies, and
- Gender equality
For more details on Option 2, please see my latest essay on the Chinese civil service www.ggd.world/p/will-femal...
I would very much like to be friends with the people who understand the symbolism in this painting I edited...
Made to illustrate Xiaoxia Huang's new paper :-)
www.ggd.world/p/will-femal...
I would very much like to be friends with the people who understand the symbolism in this painting I edited...
Made to illustrate Xiaoxia Huang's new paper :-)
www.ggd.world/p/will-femal...
Female education is over-rated.
Sure, it's a necessary condition for women's advance,
But in seclusion patriarchies, educated women may remain economically inactive
While in fraternal patriarchies, women work but are blocked from joining the upper ranks.
Awesome new paper on China 👇
When Cities Outrun the State
www.ggd.world/p/when-citie...
When Cities Outrun the State
www.ggd.world/p/when-citie...
What's the most under-rated driver of gender equality?
(In praise of job-creating economic growth)
www.ggd.world/p/whats-the-...
Trader Joe’s does not pay me to make promotional adverts,
But…
Here’s my latest centre piece, made with 2 small bunches that anyone can pick up in store.
(Made with floral sponge, so everything stays in place)
Really clear account from @draliceevans.bsky.social of why economic growth matters to gender equality and how the stats we commonly use may not be telling us what we think
Thank you so much Ashwin!!
What's the most under-rated driver of gender equality?
(In praise of job-creating economic growth)
www.ggd.world/p/whats-the-...
gender historians may say things like, "before patriarchal religions, women were spirit mediums!!" 💪
my friend...
are you referring to old women who prepared special offerings to spirits in rocks and trees?
with no special status or capacity to influence others?
🫤
How can researchers study sexual violence in countries where governments suppress data?
www.ggd.world/p/towards-a-...
Rose heist!
Thank you to You Gov for collaborating in a new survey on male violence in the US!
www.ggd.world/p/fight-club...
The barriers to gender equality vary worldwide.
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
To speed up progress towards gender equality, it would help to cast aside Western centrism and tackle local obstacles.
Me, for @economist.com
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
“One-size-fits-all approaches are unhelpful” when it comes to discussing women’s rights, argues Alice Evans in a guest essay
Thank you to @economist.com for publishing my essay on "what people get wrong about women's rights"!
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
The absolutely crucial lesson from world history is that male violence runs rampant unless it is constrained by strong states with effective deterrents
My essay 👇
www.ggd.world/p/broken-sku...
For a brief sliver of human history, modern economies generated mass demand for skills.
But for most of our past, power and prestige flowed to those who could command organised violence and achieve military might.
www.ggd.world/p/broken-sku...
In 1400, Oxford had a population of 6,000 and about 6 killings a year. Triple that of London and York.
Why was it so violent?
Students got off with impunity, as they had clerical privileges!
Nice evidence on institutions
Very cool stuff here.
Especially for an institutionalist, governance nerd like myself.
Thank you Andrew!!
Broken Skulls and the State!
My latest essay discusses 4 fantastic new datasets on skeletons, cranial trauma, and coroners' records - from Prehistory, the Middle East, Andes, and Medieval England
When did violence spike? And why?
www.ggd.world/p/broken-sku...
The under-rated subplot in Bridgerton is that it’s as recent as 1813, but girls from elite families are still not sent to school like their brothers, yet kept at home.
Cue a very bored Hyacinth, who is desperate to make her debut, then finds boys are actually disappointing
Within the humanities there’s been a tendency to focus on marginal dynamics
But this can skew our attention from major drivers of human history
If you look back at early writing, it was often to celebrate imperial conquests
Our history is fundamentally about armed struggle between warlords.
Crudely, we can cluster societies into 3 kinds:
- Male supremacy, impunity and female seclusion (Afhganistan)
- Male supremacy, impunity, but women work (Russia, China, South Korea, Thailand)
- Women organise politically and constrain male violence (Canada)
My essay www.ggd.world/p/can-women-...
