The article "Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries" by Maria Charles and Karen Bradley explores the sex segregation in academic fields across 44 countries, challenging the notion that socioeconomic modernization leads to a "degendering" of public institutions. The authors argue that gender typing of curricular fields is more pronounced in economically developed contexts due to two cultural forces: gender-essentialist ideology and self-expressive value systems. Gender-essentialist ideology, which persists even in liberal egalitarian societies, and self-expressive value systems, which encourage the expression of gendered selves, combine to create a new form of sex segregation. Multivariate analyses suggest that structural features of postindustrial labor markets and modern educational systems support the cultivation and display of gender-specific curricular affinities. The study uses international data and log-linear methodology to model cross-national variability in sex segregation, finding that advanced industrial societies exhibit greater segregation than developing/transitional societies. The authors conclude that evolutionary models of women's status are insufficient to explain cross-national and historical variability in sex segregation, as they underestimate the enduring influence of gender-essentialist ideology and the diffusion of self-expressive values.The article "Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries" by Maria Charles and Karen Bradley explores the sex segregation in academic fields across 44 countries, challenging the notion that socioeconomic modernization leads to a "degendering" of public institutions. The authors argue that gender typing of curricular fields is more pronounced in economically developed contexts due to two cultural forces: gender-essentialist ideology and self-expressive value systems. Gender-essentialist ideology, which persists even in liberal egalitarian societies, and self-expressive value systems, which encourage the expression of gendered selves, combine to create a new form of sex segregation. Multivariate analyses suggest that structural features of postindustrial labor markets and modern educational systems support the cultivation and display of gender-specific curricular affinities. The study uses international data and log-linear methodology to model cross-national variability in sex segregation, finding that advanced industrial societies exhibit greater segregation than developing/transitional societies. The authors conclude that evolutionary models of women's status are insufficient to explain cross-national and historical variability in sex segregation, as they underestimate the enduring influence of gender-essentialist ideology and the diffusion of self-expressive values.