Alice Evans on Why Equality Fails

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Alice Evans discuss why women have won equality in some countries but remain at the margin in many others. Alice Evans is a senior lecturer in international development at King's College London and the author of the forthcoming book The Great Gender Divergence. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Alice Evans discuss the influence of cultural and religious norms in promoting or stifling gender equality; how we can advocate for improvements in gender equality while minimizing the risks of backlash; and why fertility has plummeted around the world. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.9	Every country has its unique cultural inheritance with progressives and conservative.
0:30.9	But if progressives push too hard and if they go beyond, too far beyond the median citizen, then that's going to trigger this conservative patriarchal mobilization.
0:41.3	So in Uganda today, it is 10 years imprisonment for anyone affiliated or promoted with LGBT.
0:47.3	There have been similar legal moves in in Kenya and Ghana.
0:51.3	Absolutely. So you can trigger back.
0:53.3	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:01.8	My guest today is Alice Evans.
1:04.3	Alice is a senior lecturer in the social science of development
1:07.3	at King's College London.
1:09.1	And she's using the kind of approach that
1:12.4	Darren Asamoglu and my recent podcast rerun guest James Robinson used to answer questions
1:19.0	about prosperity and poverty in the world, about why some nations succeed and others fail,
1:24.1	except that she applies it to big questions of economic development and particularly
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