Women's Evolving Lives

The Status of Women: Worldwide Trends.- Women's Lives in Contemporary Chinese Societies.- About Asian Indian Women: Stereotypes, Fabrications, and Lived Realities.- Women in Indonesia.- Women in Iran.- Women in Egypt.- Psychosocial Perspectives of Cameroonian Women.- Women in South Africa: Striving for Full Equality Post-Apartheid.- Women's Identities and Roles in Italy.- Women Today in French Society.- The Status of Women: Brazil.- Women in Mexico: Advances in Their Status and Well-being.- Women in Belize.- Women in the United States.

Carrie M. Brown received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology (developmental concentration), with a minor in research methodology, from Saint Louis University. From 2011-2015, she served as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Agnes Scott College - a women's college in Decatur, Georgia where she was the head of the Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Lab. Currently the Secretary of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, she has been an author of over 35 papers and posters that have been presented at conferences both in the United States and other parts of the world. Her research interests include racial and ethnic socialization, racial and ethnic identity, acculturation, and interpersonal acceptance and rejection. With Karen Ripoll-Nunez and Anna Laura Comunian, she edited Expanding Horizons: Current Research on Interpersonal Acceptance: Selected Papers from the Third International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection (2012).
Uwe P. Gielen received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. His work has centered on international family psychology, cross-cultural studies of human development, international psychology, and gender roles in Tibetan societies. He is Professor-Emeritus of Psychology and Founding Director of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St. Francis College as well as a past chair of the Psychology Steering Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences. A former president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, the International Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and the International Council of Psychologists, he has edited, co-edited, and co-authored 22 volumes concerned with cross-cultural and international psychology. The volumes include Families in Global Perspective (2005), International Approaches to the Family and Family Therapy (1999), Childhood and Adolescence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications (2004, 2nd ed. in press), Toward a Global Psychology