Women's communities and Gender Equality

Communautés des femmes et égalité de genre

Èric Roca Fernández and Annalisa Frigo

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Abstract: According to economic theory, access to actionable threats for women should increase their bargaining power in their negotiations with men. We show how female-only communities in medieval Belgium - known as beguinages - served to protect women and relate their presence to higher levels of gender equality centuries after their closure.

Keywords: economic persistence; culture; institutions; religion; gender gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-12-21
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