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The Great Gender Divergence: Interview with Dr. Alice Evans

Tides of History

Yesterday • 51 mins

Gender is one of the fundamental forces structuring our world, but its impact is uneven in time and space. Dr. Alice Evans joins me to talk about the enormous strides toward gender equality that have defined the world in the past century or so, which she terms the Great Gender Divergence.

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