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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

women who complete different graduate degrees, we use the rich information available in each dataset, and the longitudinal … non-family-friendly work environments quot;pushquot; women out of the labor force at motherhood …