A Cross-Cultural Summary: Status of Women

In societies that believe in an attractive afterlife, females will tend to have property rights (278, 432).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Marginally Supported	p = .052	Phi = .366	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Female Property Rights	Association	Property System, Gender Status
Afterlife Beliefs	Association	Eschatology

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Whyte, Martin King	1978	Private property rights in the means of production will be negatively associated with women's status (37)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Frederic L. Pryor	2005	Dependence on agriculture for subsistence will be associated with exclusive usufruct property rights. (78)	No support claimed	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	In societies where metal working is prevalent, females will have property rights (278, 71).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	In societies where there is superordinate justice, females will tend to have property rights (278, 138).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Blum, Richard H.	1969	"When individual rights in real property and rules for inheritance are present, then: [use of tobacco occurs; and cultures disapprove of tobacco use]" (166)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author