information is counteracted by local gender norms: impacts for the T2 group are significant and often larger than those for T1 … women …

We study how reported sexism in the population affects American women. Fixed-effects and TSLS estimates show that …-based discrimination by men, and non-labor market outcomes through the influence of current norms of other women …

several specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women's employment. I present examples of policies aimed …This article discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing … countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment …

believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … northern countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference -- men and women do the same amount … by market wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests …

Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … determine social norms about gender roles, family structures and intrafamily violence which persist even when the initial … conditions change. Norms about marriage patterns, living arrangements and the productive role of women are associated with …

household work. These gender inequalities are accompanied by weaker political participation among women. While the historical … frontier may have been empowering for some women, its predominant domesticity reinforced inegalitarian gender norms over the …This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United …

more pageant-related internet search behavior following a home-state win. Teen girls and pageant-aged women with home …-state winners were more likely to report that they were trying to lose weight, and pregnant women gained less gestational weight. We … do not detect meaningful changes for teen boys, young adult men, or older women for whom social comparisons were …

against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and …This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination … rights of women and girls) collected from adolescents attending 314 schools in the state of Haryana, and their parents. We …

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …