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 … facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …

norm variable is taken from a question on whether "men should have more right to a job than women when jobs are scarce" and … represents the average extent of disagreement (on a scale 1 to 5) of women belonging to the "grandmothers" cohort. We address the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …

those continuing to work at their usual place of work, all of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before …Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently …. Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

study the design and effectiveness of three commonly used policies. We find that child care subsidies and women quotas can …

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 …

partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre …

associated with an increase in Japanese women's decision to work by 0.016 percentage points, the equivalent of an increase of 3 ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men … should work outside and women should look after the family". As we conduct a battery of sensitivity analyses and placebo …

Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force … group of married couples (non-network treatment) in low-income neighborhoods of Delhi, India. In the second treatment arm … reinforces (conservative) social norms about women's (outside) work …