Gender-equality paradox

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The gender-equality paradox is the counterintuitive finding that various average gender differences in personality and occupational choices are larger in countries that score higher in standard gender equality metrics. Larger differences are found in Big Five personality traits, Dark Triad traits, self-esteem, depression, personal values, occupational and educational choices. These finding are mostly derived from the statistical comparison between standard international measures of gender equality and standard psychological and economic data of gender differences. The most used standard equality indicators such as the Gender Parity Index scores a country higher in equality according to the existence and size of a standard set of female achievement disadvantages such as in leadership or education, with critiques arguing these instruments are flawed due to the absence of measures of real-world gendered treatment, broader women's disadvantages, national specificities, gender stereotypes as...

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