Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World

by Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris

Book Overview

The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. However, the force of this 'rising tide' has varied among rich and poor societies around the globe, as well as among younger and older generations. Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. The core argument suggests that women and men's lives have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521822033
• ISBN13: 9780521822039
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"