Alice Evans on Gender and Social Change

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 3:52 p.m.

b"Support for gender equality has increased globally, and studies of this trend usually examine individual- and/or country-level factors. However, this overlooks subnational variation. City-dwellers are more likely to support gender equality in education, employment, leadership, and leisure. \\n\\nAlice Evans, lecturer at Kings College London, sat down with Salimah Samji, Director of the Building State Capability program at CID to discuss her investigation into the causes of rural\\u2013urban differences through comparative, qualitative research in Cambodia.\\n\\nDr. Alice Evans is a Lecturer at King's College London as well as a Research Associate at CID\\u2019s Building State Capacity program. She researches social norms and how they change and is currently writing a book on how societies come to support gender equality.\\n\\nInterview originally recorded on October 30, 2018.\\n\\nView the transcript of this episode here: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/cid/files/Transcripts/Transcript-%20Alice%20Evans%20on%20Gender%20and%20Social%20Change.pdf"