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Richard York Department of Sociology University of Oregon rfyork@uoregon.edu Christina Ergas Department of Sociology University of Oregon cergas@uoregon.edu ABSTRACT WOMEN’S STATUS AND WORLD-SYSTEM POSITION: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS Our aim here is to strengthen the links between the world-systems perspective and research on gender inequality. Grounding our analysis in theories assessing the connections between gender relationships and world-system processes, we empirically explore (1) the extent to which women’s status in nations overlaps with the world-system position of those nations and (2) the influence of women’s status within nations on a variety of national characteristics. We find that women’s status has a moderately strong association with world-system position, which suggests that macro-comparative research may confound the respective effects on a variety of social characteristics of women’s status and world-system position if indicators of both factors are not included in analyses. We also find that, controlling for world-system position, GDP per capita, and urbanization, in nations where women have higher status (variously measured), total fertility rates, infant mortality rates, military expenditures, and inflows of foreign direct investment are lower, and public health care expenditures and per capita meat consumption are higher. These results suggest that women’s status likely has social effects that can be seen on the macro-level, and that world-systems analysts should pay more attention to theories of gender in their research. INTRODUCTION A decade ago, Wilma Dunaway (2001: 2) observed that “women are only a faint ghost in the world-system perspective.” She noted that very few articles in the two leading journals in the field, Review and the Journal of World-Systems Research, addressed gendered exploitation, women, or households. A quick perusal of the tables of content of issues of these journals published since Dunaway presented her assessment demonstrates that not much has changed over the first decade of this century (although, for a noteworthy exception, see the special issue of Review [Feldman 2007a] dedicated to an appreciation of the work of Joan Smith). Gender and women remain largely outside of the theoretical and research foci of the world-systems perspective. Copyright ©2011, American Sociological Association, Volume XVII, Number 1, Pages 147-164 ISSN 1076-156X
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