According to the GLOBE authors, the fundamental problem that societies must solve, and therefore can be measured along this continuum, is that of role differentiation between men and women. In this regard, a society must not only decide how to allocate social roles between the genders, but also whether to emphasize and reward behaviors that are stereotypically masculine or feminine. When divvying up social roles between the genders, some societies prescribe differentiated roles while other societies prescribe overlapping or egalitarian roles (Emrich, Denmark, & Den Hartog, 2004). Gender Egalitarianism is the degree to which a society minimizes the differences in roles between genders and promotes equality and the overlap of roles (Den Hartog 2004; Emrich et al. 2004; House and Javidan 2004). Along this dimension, Brazil scored 4.99 which was surprisingly close to the U.S. score of 5.06 (Emrich et al. 2004, p. 366).