Landon Schnabel
Religion and Gender Equality Worldwide: A Country-Level Analysis
Indiana University Bloomington
religion help hinder gender equality worldwide major world religions conducive equality others study answers questions using countrylevel data assembled multiple sources much research religion gender focused relationship individual religious belief practice gender attitudes study alternatively compares macro effects proportion religious adherents country two indicators material gender equality united nations gender inequality index social watch gender equity index comparing worlds four largest religious groups reveals largest distinction three largest faithschristianity islam hinduismbut religious nonreligious nonreligious people country gender equal country tends finding holds accounting human development countrylevel factors well instrumental variable analysis