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and women differently. Removing team identifiers from survey responses does not significantly increase reporting and …
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of an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino women working as domestic workers (DWs) by their household …
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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 …
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higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …
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women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …
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This article discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing … several specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women's employment. I present examples of policies aimed …
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northern countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference -- men and women do the same amount … believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … by market wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests …
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Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives' labor supply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP). We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in Riyadh and from a national...
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Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … conditions change. Norms about marriage patterns, living arrangements and the productive role of women are associated with … contemporary violence. Second, women's contemporary economic role affects violence in a complex way which is itself related to …
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