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Modernization and Gender Equality: A Response to Adams and Orloff

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2006

Ronald Inglehart  and
Pippa Norris
Ronald Inglehart
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
Pippa Norris
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Julia Adams and Ann Shola Orloff's insightful critical perspective in the first issue of this journal makes several important points about the relationship between modernization and gender equality. We agree with Adams and Orloff that—despite strong claims to the contrary (e.g., Young 2003)—modernization tends to be conducive to gender equality. And we also agree that the classic versions of modernization theory were inadequate. The basic insight that economic and technological development tends to bring coherent patterns of social and political change holds up well in the light of a large body of recent evidence; but previous models of modernization were mechanical and linear, and they omitted cultural factors that cannot be ignored. We join forces with Adams and Orloff in striving to develop a more adequate concept of modernization, recognizing that understanding ongoing processes of socioeconomic change is a long-term task that will need input from many perspectives.

Type
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND POLITICS
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 482 - 492
Copyright
© 2005 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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