How a decline in infectious diseases may have boosted gender equality

With the recent election of Donald Trump as president-elect of the US it may not seem like it, but gender equality has steadily increased in the country over the last few decades. Common explanations for this include things like increasing feminism and civil rights for everyone. But now a new study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, suggests that the prevalence of infectious diseases may have played a big role in this – and might even hold a clue for how to boost gender equality further