The Gendered Pathways Into Giving and Volunteering: Similar or Different Across Countries?

There has been a steady increase in research studying the role of gender prosocial behavior, such as charitable giving and volunteering. We provide an extensive review interdisciplinary literature derive hypotheses about three different pathways that lead men women to differ their display volunteering: through social capital, motivations, resources. test these across 19 countries by analyzing 28,410 individuals, using generalized structural equation models. Our results support previous research, conducted single countries, there are distinct engage Women report stronger motivations help others, but more financial resources make volunteering possible. The gendered educational achievement, security vary country.