Alice Evans
Visiting Fellow @Stanford Writing ‘The Great Gender Divergence’ with @PrincetonUPress
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How do women make friends? - be extremely kind (go the extra mile to help others) - share vulnerabilities (as a sign of commitment) - if complimented, dismiss it, say it’s just...
Why did marriages among Black Americans fall from the 1960s? Welfare? Joblessness? Incarceration? Or in response to lack of police protection from inner city violence, have black...
Evolutionary explanations of sex differences are often rejected by progressives. They want to contest, delegitimise & reform socially constructed patriarchy. But data & contestat...
Why do cult leaders have so many adoring female disciples (with whom they have sex)? 1) Women are more sensitive to anxieties, so seek religion as a coping-mechanism 2) Women are...
7 million men aged 25-54 in the USA are not working What are they doing? Volunteering? Worship? Care-work? “Playing Call of Duty stoned” They report 2000 hours a year of screen...
Unsolicited speculation: Cuisine quality strongly correlates with female seclusion: Where men’s honour was contingent upon female chastity, women primarily identified as wives an...
If polygamy is normative, rich men attract many wives. Given the scarcity of brides, single men raided other communities or paid a price. The institutionalisation of bride prices...
Meet @SwatiJaiHind Chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women. Fascinating governance: - Women contact 181 - Councillors escort women to the police & press for justice. - Swi...
Islamic (pre-colonial) states are now less developed - with higher infant mortality, less education, fewer nightlights. Why is this? Less education was provided by missionaries...
What’s it like being single in India? Excellent new book on male honour, social surveillance, and restrictions on female freedoms - even if they remain alone. https://t.co/Ftlxj0c...
Twitter doesn’t get enough credit for its radical egalitarianism. Before, when I went to workshops, I was often either ignored, patronised, or sexually harassed. On social media...
Early marriage has fallen across Africa, Except in Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar. Extremely poverty escalated over the 1990s-2000s in Madagascar, and early marriages increas...