Are Dimensions of Gender Inequality Uniformly Associated with Human Values?

Gender inequality is an articulate and multidimensional phenomenon that affects various domains of existence. We started from this multidimensionality to understand how the relative importance of human values varies through the different dimensions of gender inequality - namely work, money, knowledge, time, power, and health. Through a cross-sectional design that includes 18 European countries and the use of Bayesian correlational analysis, the findings seemed to outline three groups of values: (1) universalism, benevolence and self-direction are strongly and positively correlated to gender equality; (2) security, power and achievement are strongly and negatively correlated to equality while (3) conformity, tradition, stimulation, and hedonism have weak/non-significant correlation coefficients with gender equality. Relevance to cultural values and ideologies that support social equality are discussed. Furthermore, the specificities of some values find an explanation in relation to certain dimensions. The widening of the perspective on gender equality rectifies the previous findings by outlining a more complex scenario than the one previously identified, where the results included only two groups of values.