working in Education and the Public sectors - sectors that are more socially acceptable for women, suggesting that parental …

Black women were more likely than white women to participate in the labor force from 1870 until at least 1980 and to … stigma associated with women's work, which Goldin (1977) suggested could be traced to cultural norms rooted in slavery. In …

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.Institutional subscribers …

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 …

Married women's labor force participation has increased dramatically over the last century. Why this has occurred has … women who work in the market versus the home. These beliefs evolve rationally via an intergenerational learning process …. Women are assumed to learn about the long-term payoffs of working by observing (noisy) private and public signals. They then …

In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity … across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … in which the (negative) social attitudes towards working women might contribute towards the lower marriage rate of …

Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries …. This paper evaluates a school-based intervention in India that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender …

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

that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living … increased opportunity cost in women's foregone wages with no decrease in time allocated to childcare. We see the lowest …