Abstract My paper examines some aspects of the Covid19 pandemic in Italy from a gender perspective. I intend to highlight important inequalities management and cohabitation during that risk being otherwise hidden public discourse. will focus particular on two circumstances: decisions about work-care balancing. As regards first profile, composition committees appointed by government for crisis e...

Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these differences are transmitted from parents to children and therefore persist until today. We review work on the historical origin of differences in female lab...

Until recently, the study of gender development has focused mainly on sex typing as an attribute of the individual. Although this perspective continues to be enlightening, recent work has focused increasingly on children’s tendency to congregate in same-sex groups. This self-segregation of the two sexes implies that much of childhood gender enactment occurs in the context of samesex dyads or la...