Robert Max Jackson. This guide stresses the systematic causal analysis of gender inequality. The analytical questions raised and the readings listed consider why and how gender inequality arises, varies across and within societies, persists over generations, produces conformity by individuals and institutions, resists change, and sometimes changes dramatically.
Note: — This "page" serves to provide both an extended reading list on gender inequality and the syllabus for a graduate course based on the core of this extended reading list well over articles are included below. The readings are almost all articles with important books represented by the related scholarly articles , and almost all readings are available on the internet.
The list includes direct links to the online versions; these links are aimed at NYU's access and will not be successful for anyone not affiliated with NYU. However, most of the links have the DOI number or the JStor number listed at the end of the citation or a generic, non-NYU link is embedded in them which can be extracted for use elsewhere. Anyone having access to online scholarly publications through their institutions should be able to locate the articles through these.
The scope of the topics and materials. The advance of our knowledge about gender inequality over the past half century has been remarkable. Research on every conceivable aspect of gender relationships and gender status has been unending, across many academic fields, pursued from the widest possible range of theoretical frameworks and methodological strategies.
Still, we face many as yet unanswered questions and find it difficult to reach consensus about the meaning and implications of much that we have discovered. The accumulation of contentious knowledge has made mastery of this field challenging, with the unfortunate result that many people today rely on arguments and explanations as flawed and simplistic as they were a half century ago.
