Women in the World of Work

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In post communist countries, women do not so well in terms of representation. China's borough a is 94 % male. Central committee has never ever had a woman. In china, there's very weak or protections against gender base violenceas as we've recently seen in tensof rape,. That sad.Central asia communism could have actually been beneficial.

Around the world and for most of history, human societies have been dominated by men. Why? Professor and author of the forthcoming “The Great Gender Divergence”, Dr. Alice Evans, joins Adam to explain how male governance springs from systems of inheritance, why matrilineal systems tend to convert to patrilineal ones, and why we’re seeing progress on gender equality around the world. You can follow Alice's work on Twitter at @_alice_evans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.