Alice Evans
@draliceevans.bsky.social
Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Writing "The Great Gender Divergence"
Substack: www.ggd.world
Writing "The Great Gender Divergence"
Substack: www.ggd.world
Writing was invented over 5000 years ago.
Genuine question: how much of that corpus was written by women?
I mean state decrees, law codes, record-keeping, religious texts, literature, contracts, letters..
My guess?
Before 20th Century?
Less than 1%?
Genuine question: how much of that corpus was written by women?
I mean state decrees, law codes, record-keeping, religious texts, literature, contracts, letters..
My guess?
Before 20th Century?
Less than 1%?
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Writing was invented over 5000 years ago.
Genuine question: how much of that corpus was written by women?
I mean state decrees, law codes, record-keeping, religious texts, literature, contracts, letters..
My guess?
Before 20th Century?
Less than 1%?
Genuine question: how much of that corpus was written by women?
I mean state decrees, law codes, record-keeping, religious texts, literature, contracts, letters..
My guess?
Before 20th Century?
Less than 1%?
Multiple coins have been found in this same style..
Why is it exciting?
Why is it exciting?
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Multiple coins have been found in this same style..
Why is it exciting?
Why is it exciting?
Quiz: What is this? And why is it a useful artefact for anyone interested in the history of gender?
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Quiz: What is this? And why is it a useful artefact for anyone interested in the history of gender?
When I suggested that Latin America's high rate of femicides are primarily due to its exceptionally high violence, some pushed back.
But Claudia Sheinbaum has reduced violence, and this has simultaneously led to a decline in femicides.
But Claudia Sheinbaum has reduced violence, and this has simultaneously led to a decline in femicides.
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
When I suggested that Latin America's high rate of femicides are primarily due to its exceptionally high violence, some pushed back.
But Claudia Sheinbaum has reduced violence, and this has simultaneously led to a decline in femicides.
But Claudia Sheinbaum has reduced violence, and this has simultaneously led to a decline in femicides.
What are the origins of patriarchy?
(Or is that the wrong question...?)
Writing my book, cross-legged on the floor, scraping clues & fragments from every continent, till I cobble together the mosaic. 🧩🗺️
(Or is that the wrong question...?)
Writing my book, cross-legged on the floor, scraping clues & fragments from every continent, till I cobble together the mosaic. 🧩🗺️
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
What are the origins of patriarchy?
(Or is that the wrong question...?)
Writing my book, cross-legged on the floor, scraping clues & fragments from every continent, till I cobble together the mosaic. 🧩🗺️
(Or is that the wrong question...?)
Writing my book, cross-legged on the floor, scraping clues & fragments from every continent, till I cobble together the mosaic. 🧩🗺️
As China’s exports come up against trade barriers, they’re offloading & flooding other countries.
🇮🇩 factories have increasingly closed - exacerbating a prior trend of automation, de-industrialisation, & stalled development.
By Jon Emont,
Ft @drodrik.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
🇮🇩 factories have increasingly closed - exacerbating a prior trend of automation, de-industrialisation, & stalled development.
By Jon Emont,
Ft @drodrik.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
August 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
As China’s exports come up against trade barriers, they’re offloading & flooding other countries.
🇮🇩 factories have increasingly closed - exacerbating a prior trend of automation, de-industrialisation, & stalled development.
By Jon Emont,
Ft @drodrik.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
🇮🇩 factories have increasingly closed - exacerbating a prior trend of automation, de-industrialisation, & stalled development.
By Jon Emont,
Ft @drodrik.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
It was such a treat to be on CNN with the fantastic Fareed Zakaria - who was incredibly kind & insightful!
July 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It was such a treat to be on CNN with the fantastic Fareed Zakaria - who was incredibly kind & insightful!
3 patriarchs huddle, each glorifies a distinct ideology:
1) says men are more intelligent.
2) claims that female seclusion is necessary for heaven.
3) rejects reproductive freedoms.
Which patriarchal ideology proves most resilient in the 21st century?
1) says men are more intelligent.
2) claims that female seclusion is necessary for heaven.
3) rejects reproductive freedoms.
Which patriarchal ideology proves most resilient in the 21st century?
July 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
3 patriarchs huddle, each glorifies a distinct ideology:
1) says men are more intelligent.
2) claims that female seclusion is necessary for heaven.
3) rejects reproductive freedoms.
Which patriarchal ideology proves most resilient in the 21st century?
1) says men are more intelligent.
2) claims that female seclusion is necessary for heaven.
3) rejects reproductive freedoms.
Which patriarchal ideology proves most resilient in the 21st century?
Patriarchy persists in cultural enclaves that legitimise and naturalise inequalities - when it is the air we breathe.
Technological connectivity can be radically disruptive, enabling ideological persuasion.
Have I tagged all the feminist bestsellers here in Yogya? 📚
Technological connectivity can be radically disruptive, enabling ideological persuasion.
Have I tagged all the feminist bestsellers here in Yogya? 📚
July 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Patriarchy persists in cultural enclaves that legitimise and naturalise inequalities - when it is the air we breathe.
Technological connectivity can be radically disruptive, enabling ideological persuasion.
Have I tagged all the feminist bestsellers here in Yogya? 📚
Technological connectivity can be radically disruptive, enabling ideological persuasion.
Have I tagged all the feminist bestsellers here in Yogya? 📚
Thank you so much to all my friends in Indonesia for being so incredibly hospitable, generous & informative!
This trip has radically advanced my understanding of 🇮🇩 schooling, religious syncretism, nationalism, & gender.
Here’s me looking like I have just heard MAJOR gossip. 👀
This trip has radically advanced my understanding of 🇮🇩 schooling, religious syncretism, nationalism, & gender.
Here’s me looking like I have just heard MAJOR gossip. 👀
July 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Thank you so much to all my friends in Indonesia for being so incredibly hospitable, generous & informative!
This trip has radically advanced my understanding of 🇮🇩 schooling, religious syncretism, nationalism, & gender.
Here’s me looking like I have just heard MAJOR gossip. 👀
This trip has radically advanced my understanding of 🇮🇩 schooling, religious syncretism, nationalism, & gender.
Here’s me looking like I have just heard MAJOR gossip. 👀
Indonesia’s cultural syncretism - celebrated in wedding photography:
- 3 pins in her hair (cunduk mentul)
- sarongs
- ceremonial dagger (keris)
- guardian deities are wrapped in black-white checked cloth to honour their sacred power
- Islamic hijab
- 3 pins in her hair (cunduk mentul)
- sarongs
- ceremonial dagger (keris)
- guardian deities are wrapped in black-white checked cloth to honour their sacred power
- Islamic hijab
July 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Indonesia’s cultural syncretism - celebrated in wedding photography:
- 3 pins in her hair (cunduk mentul)
- sarongs
- ceremonial dagger (keris)
- guardian deities are wrapped in black-white checked cloth to honour their sacred power
- Islamic hijab
- 3 pins in her hair (cunduk mentul)
- sarongs
- ceremonial dagger (keris)
- guardian deities are wrapped in black-white checked cloth to honour their sacred power
- Islamic hijab
A fundamental part of the Enlightenment was the belief that a human mind is NOT a fixed state,
We are all capable of reason, logic, & imagination,
But in many environments, this is suffocated and suppressed,
Not least by back-breaking drudgery.
We are all capable of reason, logic, & imagination,
But in many environments, this is suffocated and suppressed,
Not least by back-breaking drudgery.
July 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
A fundamental part of the Enlightenment was the belief that a human mind is NOT a fixed state,
We are all capable of reason, logic, & imagination,
But in many environments, this is suffocated and suppressed,
Not least by back-breaking drudgery.
We are all capable of reason, logic, & imagination,
But in many environments, this is suffocated and suppressed,
Not least by back-breaking drudgery.
As someone who has seen how a liberal education can dramatically transform a young person’s mind
- catalysing creativity and curiousity -
I always think of this unrealized potential and untapped talent.
- catalysing creativity and curiousity -
I always think of this unrealized potential and untapped talent.
July 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
As someone who has seen how a liberal education can dramatically transform a young person’s mind
- catalysing creativity and curiousity -
I always think of this unrealized potential and untapped talent.
- catalysing creativity and curiousity -
I always think of this unrealized potential and untapped talent.
Indonesia is truly beautiful,
But it’s striking to see so little mechanisation of agriculture. Whether I visit tobacco, rice, or fish farms, much is still done by hand.
So many potentially brilliant minds still trapped in drudgery - “Lost Einsteins”.
But it’s striking to see so little mechanisation of agriculture. Whether I visit tobacco, rice, or fish farms, much is still done by hand.
So many potentially brilliant minds still trapped in drudgery - “Lost Einsteins”.
July 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Indonesia is truly beautiful,
But it’s striking to see so little mechanisation of agriculture. Whether I visit tobacco, rice, or fish farms, much is still done by hand.
So many potentially brilliant minds still trapped in drudgery - “Lost Einsteins”.
But it’s striking to see so little mechanisation of agriculture. Whether I visit tobacco, rice, or fish farms, much is still done by hand.
So many potentially brilliant minds still trapped in drudgery - “Lost Einsteins”.
Yogya is gloriously vibrant, it’s such a pleasure to see Prambanan temple, Borobodhur, as well as Indonesians Muslims’ pride & enjoyment of this beautiful heritage.
Also recommended: a ginormous hat.
Also recommended: a ginormous hat.
July 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Yogya is gloriously vibrant, it’s such a pleasure to see Prambanan temple, Borobodhur, as well as Indonesians Muslims’ pride & enjoyment of this beautiful heritage.
Also recommended: a ginormous hat.
Also recommended: a ginormous hat.
Welcome to Yogya, where pink hijabis carefully choreograph a tiktok performance in front of a 9th century Hindu temple. 🇮🇩❤️
July 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Welcome to Yogya, where pink hijabis carefully choreograph a tiktok performance in front of a 9th century Hindu temple. 🇮🇩❤️
The village chief is generously taking me on a big trip up river! 🐟🐠
July 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The village chief is generously taking me on a big trip up river! 🐟🐠
Pop quiz for you and your AI:
Where am I?
What’s the building on the left?
What does it tell us?
Where am I?
What’s the building on the left?
What does it tell us?
July 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Pop quiz for you and your AI:
Where am I?
What’s the building on the left?
What does it tell us?
Where am I?
What’s the building on the left?
What does it tell us?
“What book should people read to understand gender equality?” asks Lavina
“Romantic fiction!”, I suggest 😀
“Romantic fiction!”, I suggest 😀
July 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“What book should people read to understand gender equality?” asks Lavina
“Romantic fiction!”, I suggest 😀
“Romantic fiction!”, I suggest 😀
“All good?”, asks my mother
“Oh yes, my friend is taking me on a motorbike tour of mosques and holy shrines!” 🏍️ 🇮🇩🕌
“Oh yes, my friend is taking me on a motorbike tour of mosques and holy shrines!” 🏍️ 🇮🇩🕌
July 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“All good?”, asks my mother
“Oh yes, my friend is taking me on a motorbike tour of mosques and holy shrines!” 🏍️ 🇮🇩🕌
“Oh yes, my friend is taking me on a motorbike tour of mosques and holy shrines!” 🏍️ 🇮🇩🕌
“How can men support women?”
Or let me rephrase the question, “How do culture & institions shape men’s proclivity to support women?”
Lavina (my Acehenese RA) interviewed me for her podcast! 🇮🇩
Or let me rephrase the question, “How do culture & institions shape men’s proclivity to support women?”
Lavina (my Acehenese RA) interviewed me for her podcast! 🇮🇩
July 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“How can men support women?”
Or let me rephrase the question, “How do culture & institions shape men’s proclivity to support women?”
Lavina (my Acehenese RA) interviewed me for her podcast! 🇮🇩
Or let me rephrase the question, “How do culture & institions shape men’s proclivity to support women?”
Lavina (my Acehenese RA) interviewed me for her podcast! 🇮🇩
“Nongkrong” is Indonesian slang for hanging out.
It means relaxing with friends, with no specific agenda.
If you search for “Nongkrong”, you’ll get a bunch of cafes.
Predicated on a culture of permissibility, where women can loiter with male & female friends 😀☕️
It means relaxing with friends, with no specific agenda.
If you search for “Nongkrong”, you’ll get a bunch of cafes.
Predicated on a culture of permissibility, where women can loiter with male & female friends 😀☕️
July 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“Nongkrong” is Indonesian slang for hanging out.
It means relaxing with friends, with no specific agenda.
If you search for “Nongkrong”, you’ll get a bunch of cafes.
Predicated on a culture of permissibility, where women can loiter with male & female friends 😀☕️
It means relaxing with friends, with no specific agenda.
If you search for “Nongkrong”, you’ll get a bunch of cafes.
Predicated on a culture of permissibility, where women can loiter with male & female friends 😀☕️
If ever you read anything by me on Aceh 🇮🇩, know that it is indebted to the wonderful *Lavina*
She introduced me to mechanics, traders, religious teachers, nurses, police officers, & students
Lavina helped me learn so much about what’s driving gender equality
I am grateful 🫶
She introduced me to mechanics, traders, religious teachers, nurses, police officers, & students
Lavina helped me learn so much about what’s driving gender equality
I am grateful 🫶
July 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If ever you read anything by me on Aceh 🇮🇩, know that it is indebted to the wonderful *Lavina*
She introduced me to mechanics, traders, religious teachers, nurses, police officers, & students
Lavina helped me learn so much about what’s driving gender equality
I am grateful 🫶
She introduced me to mechanics, traders, religious teachers, nurses, police officers, & students
Lavina helped me learn so much about what’s driving gender equality
I am grateful 🫶
My research assistant is truly fantastic, and is also an Indonesian influencer, with 100k followers on Instagram
And she kindly let me ask her followers about their favourite books! 📚
And she kindly let me ask her followers about their favourite books! 📚
July 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My research assistant is truly fantastic, and is also an Indonesian influencer, with 100k followers on Instagram
And she kindly let me ask her followers about their favourite books! 📚
And she kindly let me ask her followers about their favourite books! 📚
A local women’s group recently organised an event where they all brought and discussed their favourite books
Books unlock a portal to another world 🗺️
Books unlock a portal to another world 🗺️
July 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
A local women’s group recently organised an event where they all brought and discussed their favourite books
Books unlock a portal to another world 🗺️
Books unlock a portal to another world 🗺️