Alessandra Lucia Gonzalez

Journal Article International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship · July 20, 2023 Purpose: The authors propose that the lessons learned by women business owners in Saudi Arabia during the pandemic can provide a model of strategic engagement for gender, work and organizations moving forward, where the acknowledgment of women's dual roles ... Full text Cite

Insider's advantage: When foreign firms do not capture opportunity in the local labour market

Journal Article Transnational Corporations · December 18, 2020 Previous studies have argued that, relative to local firms, multinational firms may have an “outsider's advantage” in hiring women. Using a large data set of executives in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in a region with some of the lowest r ... Full text Cite

Misperceived social norms: women working outside the home in saudi arabia

Journal Article American Economic Review · October 1, 2020 We show that the vast majority of young married men in Saudi Arabia privately support women working outside the home (WWOH) and substantially underestimate support by other similar men. Correcting these beliefs increases men's (costly) willingness to help ... Full text Cite

The veil you know: Individual and societal-level explanations for wearing the hijab in comparative perspective

Journal Article Social Compass · December 1, 2018 This article examines the individual and societal explanations for the persistence of the hijab as a conservative cultural norm in persistently religious and culturally conservative communities. Analyzing data from 300 hijab-wearing women in Egypt and 198 ... Full text Cite

WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY ATTAINMENT AND LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL COUNTRIES

Chapter · January 1, 2018 While women’s university graduation rates currently exceed those of men in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, women’s labor force participation has remained stagnant. To understand the causes of this increase in women’s higher education and what kee ... Full text Cite

Women in the news: A us-arab gulf comparison

Chapter · January 1, 2017 González offers an analysis of the cultural constraints in both Western and Middle Eastern contexts which have shaped the various realities and challenges for women pioneers in media. In this contribution, the author catalogues women’s entries into the Uni ... Full text Cite

“Not at All Religious”: Irreligiosity as Social Deviance in a Majority Muslim Context

Journal Article Deviant Behavior · February 1, 2016 In a majority Muslim context, where most college students are raised religiously and appear outwardly to conform to social norms in terms of dress and religious ritual, which college students are most likely to report that, in fact, they consider themselve ... Full text Cite

How Women Engage Homegrown Terrorism

Journal Article Feminist Criminology · October 1, 2014 U.S. Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) Study data of homicides by far-right extremists and arsons and bombings by environmental and animal rights extremists suggest that compared with men, relationships are catalysts for women’s involvement in domestic terro ... Full text Cite

Measuring Religiosity in a Majority Muslim Context: Gender, Religious Salience, and Religious Experience Among Kuwaiti College Students-A Research Note

Journal Article Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · June 1, 2011 The meaning of traditional and alternative measures of religiosity in a majority Muslim context is examined using the Islamic Social Attitudes Survey (ISAS). Specifically, this article reports a test of whether traditional religiosity measures are useful i ... Full text Cite

Complicating the "clash of civilizations": Gender and politics in contemporary Kuwait

Journal Article Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion · January 1, 2011 Full text Cite