نابرابري جنسيتي و توسعه اقتصادي در ايران

Gender Inequalities and Economic Development in Iran

The relationship between Economic Development and Gender inequalities has become one of the most debated issues in policy making and social sciences. The relevant literature in this issue can be categorized in three General approaches: Modernization - Neoclassical, WID and GAD. This paper assesses the issues by using cross - provinces data on womenʹs status and inequalities between men and women in Iran. For this purpose two kinds of models, lie - linear and curvilinear were applied. The independent variables are GDP per capita, the components of HDI and GEM. Two main dependent variables are status of women and Gender inequalities. Our finding suggest that, there is a positive - linear relationship between Economic Development and the status of women. but the curvilinear relationship is not supported by our data. Furthermore, a weak negative linear relationship exists. The results support the neoclassical and WID approaches. Nevertheless, our finding support the argument that partriarchal institutional legacies undermine the status of women. Taking such legacies into eunsideeration explains away the curvilinearity on the relationship between levels of Economic Development and the Gender inequalities.