Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on … individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to … single countries, and general patterns are rarely explored. Cross-country evidence on gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work …

facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is … countries on four continents there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The …

women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i … legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …

, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further …

living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test … women's political empowerment and economic opportunity; and (3) are driven by parents' influencing their children … that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending … extensive and intensive margins. We find that mothers are spending substantially longer in childcare and housework than their … partners and that they are spending a larger fraction of their paid work hours having to juggle work and childcare. Gender …

women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report …, respiratory difficulties, depression and anxiety, fatigue and insomnia. We then proxy social norms by the gender structure of the … workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate …