Saying ‘sorry’ to someone in authority evokes more guilt and shame in your first language.
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It’s possible to work with and change social norms about suitable work for women.
One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that everyone has a gender.
Cultural ideas are inextricably entwined with the people who do science, the questions they ask, the assumptions they hold and the conclusions they land on.
Do you feel you should say “good” when someone asks how you are? If so, you may be responding to pressures of pro-happiness tribalism.
Development agencies should be careful about creating tensions between existing cultural norms and new concepts and behaviours they are introducing.
Vibes – ambiguous as they are – have become part of the cultural zeitgeist. Studying them could help us better understand human relationships and experiences.
It was Coco Channel who first made tanning fashionable. But South Californian and Polynesian surfers and American artists on the Côte d'Azur gave it its ‘raison d'être’.
It’s not just size. China’s pragmatic trade strategy, which prioritizes meeting the development needs of its trading partners, has played a key role, too.
The potential repeal of the ban on female genital mutilation poses a threat to the well-being of girls in The Gambia.
My research shows how urban design can make it harder for women in some countries to make sustainable choices.
Creating opportunities to meaningfully engage women in governance and decision-making is necessary to achieve gender equality in small-scale fisheries.
Your most important piece of exercise gear may be the friends you buddy up with to work out.
The aim was to understand intense social problems that accompany people’s medical problems.
Family, marriage and culture are among the factors that influence black women’s experiences as scientists.
Creating more opportunities for young women and girls to work and earn money is a possible solution to early marriages. Subsidising secondary education to keep poorer girls in school is another.
Clear court procedures are required to guarantee confidentiality, safety, and dignity for victims of highly stigmatising cases, such as sexual abuse.
Here’s how cultural practices are playing a role in many countries in incentivizing parents to educate their girls.
While the current political climate has cultivated a sense of fear surrounding cultural differences, when it comes to parenting, these differences could actually help make people better parents.
It’s a common quirk of human psychology to make the mental leap that the way things are is the way things ought to be. New research into how we explain the world around us sheds light on the phenomenon.
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
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Professor of Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
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Visiting Fellow, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
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Ph.D. Student in Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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PhD Candidate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies, Universitas Indonesia
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Young Lives Ethiopia Country Director, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate in Social and Ecological Sustainability, University of Waterloo
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Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Iowa State University
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Associate Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
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Research Associate, MECS, Loughborough University, Loughborough University
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Director of Programs, Human Rights Center; Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton School of Law, University of Dayton