A Conversation on Measuring Social Norms and Women’s Empowerment

/ 9 December 2020 / 0 Comments

Meeting Summary by Amy McLaughlin

On November 20th, 2020, the WEDGE program hosted an interdisciplinary webinar entitled, “A Conversation on Measuring Social Norms and Women’s Empowerment.” An exciting panel with experts from many different fields engaged with the following questions:

How do different disciplines address measurement of social norms?
Should norms be measured at the level of individuals or institutions/communities?
Are norms regarding gendered behaviors about gender or about something else (e.g. social class or religious identity)?
Do public policies have a role in changing gender norms?

We are sharing with you the presentations made during the session via the WEDGE You Tube Channel. Please follow the links below:

Sangeetha Madhavan & Mike Wagner, University of Maryland, “Measuring Mothering and Empowerment”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndXKaAZcBo

Yue Qian, Univ. British Columbia, “The rise of women in education and what it means for gender relations in China”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzMxiw7d-5c

Mark VanLandingham, Laura McKinney & Devin Wright, Tulane University, “Masculinity and gender scripts”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdPD7VqjqGE

Anita Raj, Center on Gender Equity and Health, UCSD, “Conceptualizing and measuring social norms on women’s paid work at scale: Early findings from the World Values Survey”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iidqr2Jrm8

Poonam Muttreja, Population Foundation of India, “Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon: I, Woman, can achieve anything A Trans-Media Initiative That Changed Women’s Lives”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOJpFcUXgJA

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