Alice Evans

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by Alice Evans

About Alice Evans

Alice Evans is a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford and Senior Lecturer at King’s College London.

Her forthcoming book, The Great Gender Divergence, with Princeton University Press, explains how the world has become more gender equal, and why some societies are more gender equal than others. Alice also hosts the podcast Rocking Our Priors.

Media and Recognition

Alice’s work has been covered by the Financial Times, BBC, New York Times (x 3), Guardian, New Statesman, and Wall Street Journal. In 2025, she gave a TedTalk on Romantic Love, and Project Syndicate named her a “Forward Thinker”.

Financial Support

Generous financial support has been provided by the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, Leverhulme Fellowship, Open Philanthropy, and O’Shaughnessy.