Religion and gender inequality: The status of women in the societies of world religions

Moravian Geographical Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 2-11

  Klingorová, Kamila ^a   Havlíček, Tomáš ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Gender inequality; Geography of religion; Status of women; World religions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934276235     PISSN: 12108812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mgr-2015-0006     Document Type: Article

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