出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：Our aim here is to strengthen the links between the world-systems perspective and research on gender inequality. Grounding our analysis in theories assessing the connections between gender relationships and world-system processes, we empirically explore (1) the extent to which women’s status in nations overlaps with the world-system position of those nations and (2) the influence of women’s status within nations on a variety of national characteristics. We find that women’s status has a moderately strong association with world-system position, which suggests that macro-comparative research may confound the respective effects on a variety of social characteristics of women’s status and world-system position if indicators of both factors are not included in analyses. We also find that, controlling for world-system position, GDP per capita, and urbanization, in nations where women have higher status (variously measured), total fertility rates, infant mortality rates, military expenditures, and inflows of foreign direct investment are lower, and public health care expenditures and per capita meat consumption are higher. These results suggest that women’s status likely has social effects that can be seen on the macro-level, and that world-systems analysts should pay more attention to theories of gender in their research.
