intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … countries. This paper discusses the measurement of gender attitudes and reviews research findings. Studies reveal that gender …. Mothers' egalitarian views and less-restrictive gender norms promote greater labour force participation for daughters and …

private institutions. In all of them, we find complex problems arising from gender inequality, this underlines the urgency of … educational measures and social interventions that incorporate the gender perspective. The ultimate priority of gender … mainstreaming is to achieve "gender equality, and equity" in our given society. This study described the social developmental needs …

We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data … and other source-country variables, higher gender equality in the country of ancestry is significantly associated with a … lower risk of victimization in the host country. This suggests that gender norms may play an important role in explaining …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …

by genre and gender, and motivations for location, especially in New York.For this, we have constructed a yearly data set …

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gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college … majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. Since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of … outcomes realized at the workplace explain a substantial part of the choice for males. I decompose the gender gap into …

This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971 …–2006 General Household Survey. We examine sex-selection in the UK among immigrant families and the gender composition of previous …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …