How far back is there a record of gender inequality?

Sally Kitch, an ASU Regents' Professor of Women and Gender Studies, has spent many years exploring the reasons why the world sees men and women so ... read more

All the way to the first written works still surviving. Although it's fair to assume it predates Cuneiform. read more

Beyond the economic costs, gender inequality also has severe individual and societal losses for a nation. While the female sex constitutes slightly more than 50% of the population, only 14 of the total 200 governments, or 7%, are headed by women. read more

“For some reason, societies have decided that there’s something inherently inferior about having a female body and producing offspring,” Kitch says. Utopian solutionsThroughout history, and especially in the 19th century, the U.S. witnessed the formation of several “utopian” communities that attempted to overcome gender inequality. read more