Helmut K. Anheier is past President of and Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School, Germany, and member of the Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA.Darinka Markovic is an expert in visual analytics and data analysis and contributes to various research projects focusing on international cultural cooperation and the cultural economy.

• 1. Gender equality, art worlds, and the cultural economy: what are the issues? 2. The incomplete promise of egalité in France’s cultural economy 3. Is the “cultural nation” an equal one? Gender inequality in Germany 4. Heritage and tradition in Italy’s cultural economy: a roadblock to gender equality? 5. Poland: gender equality caught between two cultures 6. Sweden: the benefits of long-term commitment to gender mainstreaming 7. The United Kingdom’s approach to the cultural economy: leaving women behind? 8. United States: falling behind in gender equality 9. Gender equality in the cultural economy: lessons from the seven-country study

Helmut K. Anheier is past President of and Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School, Germany, and member of the Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA.Darinka Markovic is an expert in visual analytics and data analysis and contributes to various research projects focusing on international cultural cooperation and the cultural economy.

• 1. Gender equality, art worlds, and the cultural economy: what are the issues? 2. The incomplete promise of egalité in France’s cultural economy 3. Is the “cultural nation” an equal one? Gender inequality in Germany 4. Heritage and tradition in Italy’s cultural economy: a roadblock to gender equality? 5. Poland: gender equality caught between two cultures 6. Sweden: the benefits of long-term commitment to gender mainstreaming 7. The United Kingdom’s approach to the cultural economy: leaving women behind? 8. United States: falling behind in gender equality 9. Gender equality in the cultural economy: lessons from the seven-country study

Helmut K. Anheier is past President of and Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School, Germany, and member of the Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA.Darinka Markovic is an expert in visual analytics and data analysis and contributes to various research projects focusing on international cultural cooperation and the cultural economy.

• 1. Gender equality, art worlds, and the cultural economy: what are the issues? 2. The incomplete promise of egalité in France’s cultural economy 3. Is the “cultural nation” an equal one? Gender inequality in Germany 4. Heritage and tradition in Italy’s cultural economy: a roadblock to gender equality? 5. Poland: gender equality caught between two cultures 6. Sweden: the benefits of long-term commitment to gender mainstreaming 7. The United Kingdom’s approach to the cultural economy: leaving women behind? 8. United States: falling behind in gender equality 9. Gender equality in the cultural economy: lessons from the seven-country study