TY - BOOK AU - Cuevas,Ángel AU - Cuevas,Rubén AU - Desmet,Klaus AU - Ortuño-Ortín,Ignacio ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2021/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - November 2021; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - This paper uses information on the frequency of 45,397 Facebook interests to study how the difference in preferences between men and women changes with a country's degree of gender equality. For preference dimensions that are systematically biased toward the same gender across the globe, differences between men and women are larger in more gender-equal countries. In contrast, for preference dimensions with a gender bias that varies across countries, the opposite holds. This finding takes an important step toward reconciling evolutionary psychology and social role theory as they relate to gender UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w29451 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w29451 ER -