How Cities Erode Gender Inequalities: Evidence from Zambia & Cambodia (World Bank talk)

Support for gender equality has increased across the world, especially in cities. Why is this? And what does it tell us about the drivers of social change?
World Bank talk, followed by insightful questions from the audience. Sharing in case it's of wider interest.
My research in Zambia & Cambodia suggests that cities:
- Raise the opportunity costs of the male breadwinner model,
- Increase exposure to women in socially valued roles, and
- Enable diverse associations, so people can collectively contest established practices. Interests, exposure, and association then reinforce a snowballing process of social change.
This draws on two years of fieldwork in rural and urban Cambodia and Zambia. It has been published in Gender & Society, and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.