Editing World Values Survey (section)

===Gender values===
Findings from the WVS indicate that support for [[gender equality]] is not just a consequence of [[democratization]]. It is part of a broader cultural change that is transforming [[Industrialisation|industrialized societies]] with mass demands for increasingly democratic institutions. Although a majority of the world's population still believes that men make better political leaders than women, this view is fading in advanced industrialized societies, and also among young people in less prosperous countries.{{Sfn | Alesina | Giuliano | Nunn | 2010}}

World Values Survey data is used by the [[United Nations Development Programme|United Nation Development Programme]] in order to calculate the ''gender social norms index.'' The index measures attitudes toward gender equality worldwide and was introduced in the [[Human Development Report]] starting from 2019. The index has four components, measuring gender attitudes in politics, education and economy as well as social norms related to domestic violence.<ref>United Nations Development Programme. 2020 Human Development Perspectives. ''[http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hd_perspectives_gsni.pdf Tackling social norms: A game changer for gender inequalities].'' Pages 6-8.</ref>