the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Exposure to information on peer beliefs leads to a shift in …

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to …--some emphasizing their entrepreneurial independence, others their prevailing domesticity. The distinctive frontier gender roles, in …

Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls' conformity to gender … less to gender norms live in regions with higher female employment and university attendance, highlighting the role of the …

We analyse the effect of a mandatory kindergarten for four-year-old children on mothers' labour supply in Switzerland …. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find an increase of mothers' labour force participation. Since kindergarten … is not a full-day care, the results suggest a rise in the share of part-time working mothers. Furthermore, the reform …

This paper combines personnel records of the U.S. federal government with census data to study how shocks to the gender … composition of a large organization can persistently shift gender norms. Exploiting city-by-department variation in the sudden … and horizontal transmission of gender norms and highlight how increasing gender representation within the public sector …