believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … using U.S. and German data show that they do not arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not … associated with marital status; nor do they stem from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work …

participation in the labor force, thus providing the incentive to invest in market skills, potentially narrowing gender earnings …

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …