For girls and women, marriage under 18 years is commonplace in many low-income nations
today and was culturally widespread historically. Global health campaigns refer to marriage …

Sexual conflict is a thriving area of animal behaviour research. Yet parallel research in the
evolutionary human sciences remains underdeveloped and has become mired by …

Despite the extensive scholarship on women's empowerment and gender equality in the
Global South, few studies have examined how changing livelihoods create new challenges …

Urbanization in low and middle-income nations is characterized by economic and
demographic shifts largely understood to be beneficial to women's empowerment. These …

Global health interventions increasingly target the abolishment of 'child marriage'(marriage
under 18 years, hereafter referred to as 'early marriage'). Guided by human behavioural …

Background The push towards commercialization is driven by the modernization paradigm
which argues that traditional subsistence farming is backward and primitive. Despite …

Gender role ideology, ie beliefs about how genders should behave, is shaped by social
learning. Accordingly, if perceptions about the beliefs of others are inaccurate this may …

Peer influence in adolescence and early adulthood is critical to the formation of beliefs about
appropriate behaviour for each gender. Complicating matters, recent studies suggest that …

Violence against women has been prevalent in societies throughout history and continues to
be common today. However, rates of violence have varied over time and across cultures …

Sexual conflict is a thriving area of animal behaviour research. Yet parallel research in the
evolutionary human sciences remains underdeveloped and has become mired by …