@article{50eb76ab16084fb189ee64ab193cfbb8,
title = "Trends in global gender inequality",
abstract = "This study investigates trends in gender inequality throughout the world. Using data encompassing a large majority of the world's population, we examine trends in recent decades for key indicators of gender inequality in education, mortality, politicalrepresentation and economic activity. We find that gender inequality is declining in virtually all major domains, that the decline is occurring across diverse religious and cultural traditions, and that population growth is slowing the decline because populations are growing faster in countries where there is the greatest gender inequality.",
author = "Dorius, {Shawn F.} and Glenn Firebaugh",
note = "Funding Information: Authors contributed equally. This research is based on inequality research initially funded by NSF grants SBR-9515153 and SBR-9870870 to Firebaugh. Dorius was supported by a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Training Grant from the Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University. Earlier versions of this artiele werepresented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Population Association of America in Los Angeles, CA and at the 2007 Mapping Global Inequality: Beyond Income Inequality Conference at University of California, Santa Cruz. Direct correspondence to Shawn E Dorius, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248. E-mail.: sdorius@umich.edu. Or, Glenn Firebaugh, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 206 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802. E-mail:jirebaug@pop.psu.edu.",
year = "2010",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1353/sof.2010.0040",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "88",
pages = "1941--1968",
journal = "Social Forces",
issn = "0037-7732",
publisher = "University of North Carolina Press",
number = "5",
}
