Divorce and the Status of Women

Abstract

Explicitly or implicitly, the notion of female status has been involved in scholarly thinking about divorce both in sociology and in anthropology. The hypothesis that female status is a cause ofdivorce is tested using data on 48 tribal societies. Dichotomous divorce rates are found to be moderately correlated with a scale measuring female status even when several other theoretically relevant variables are separately controlled. The findings suggest that to the extent that members ofmodern nations desire both family stability and sexual equality they may face a serious dilemma.

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