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What Alice Evans thinks about politics

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Senior lecturer in international development at King's College London, writing The Great Gender Divergence at ggd.world. She compares why men's and women's lives are converging in some societies and diverging in others, mixing survey data with her own interviews across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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  1. Our readingWhere women's economic rise is too mild to resent, the far right turns its grievance politics onto immigration instead.

    Their wordsSince women did not pose an economic threat, far-right politicians have instead galvanised society-wide opposition to immigration.

    ↗Does Women’s Rise trigger Backlash?ggd.world 1st of 2 in this piece

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  3. Our readingA backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.

    Their wordsSo even though women’s economic advancement did displace some men, and triggered some private hostility, it was never actually catapulted into social antagonism. This is primarily because it was never leveraged by political entrepreneurs!

    ↗Does Women’s Rise trigger Backlash?ggd.world 2nd of 2 in this piece