This article explores the relationship between gender inequality and the tempo of life around the world. By directly situating tempo in sociological theory, I develop a more consistent, embodied, precise and generalizable measure for the tempo of public life, with gender on the forefront. To do so, I draw on the largest dataset to-date collected on the tempo of life around the world. This allows me to isolate how macro- and micro-level gender inequality matters in different contexts. Contrary to existing literature from the biosciences, my ordinary least squares regression results show that in countries with high levels of gender inequality, women often walk faster than men in public places. Monte Carlo cross-validation tests and parametric bootstrap analyses test the predictive accuracy of the full model. My results illustrate that the tempo of public life cannot be solely reduced to previously-explored economic, cultural and environmental differences between the northern and the southern hemispheres. The consideration of gender is imperative for understanding between-country and within-country differences in tempo. In addition to shedding light on the tempo of public life, my work serves as an important first step toward standardizing the tempo measure, allowing for meaningful comparisons in markedly different contexts.

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超越时间束缚：87 个国家的性别不平等和生活节奏

本文探讨了性别不平等与世界各地生活节奏之间的关系。通过在社会学理论中直接定位节奏，我为公共生活的节奏开发了一种更加一致、具体、精确和可概括的衡量标准，其中性别处于最前沿。为此，我利用迄今为止收集的关于世界各地生活节奏的最大数据集。这使我能够区分宏观和微观层面的性别不平等在不同背景下的重要性。与现有的生物科学文献相反，我的普通最小二乘回归结果表明，在性别不平等程度较高的国家，女性在公共场所的步行速度通常比男性快。Monte Carlo 交叉验证测试和参数自举分析测试了完整模型的预测准确性。我的研究结果表明，公共生活的节奏不能仅仅归结为先前探索过的南北半球之间的经济、文化和环境差异。性别的考虑对于理解国家之间和国家内部的节奏差异是必不可少的。除了阐明公共生活的节奏之外，我的工作是迈向标准化节奏度量的重要第一步，允许在明显不同的背景下进行有意义的比较。