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Gender and industrialization: developments and trends in the context of developing countries
Sorgner, Alina - 2021
This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context … current differences in gender roles across societies. Moreover, it discusses the main drivers of the relationship between … gender equality, economic development and structural change with a focus on the mechanisms driving this complex relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484471
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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival : evidence from trade policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009549661
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Gender and Industrialization : Developments and Trends in the Context of Developing Countries
Sorgner, Alina - 2021
This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between gender (in)equality and industrialization in the context … current differences in gender roles across societies. Moreover, it discusses the main drivers of the relationship between … gender equality, economic development and structural change with a focus on the mechanisms driving this complex relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243095
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Industrious migrants : gender and the earnings of migrants in Swedish manufacturing around 1900
Eriksson, Björn; Stanfors, Maria - In: Scandinavian economic history review 70 (2022) 2, pp. 142-166
, irrespective of gender, performed well in that their earnings were higher than those of locals in general and of co-workers in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013350336
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Nineteenth century US African-American and white female statures: Insight from US prison records
Carson, Scott A. - 2010
Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274914
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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival: Evidence from trade policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283994
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Nineteenth century US African-American and white female statures : insight from US prison records
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696667
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Industrialization, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Modern Division of Labor by Sex
Rau, William; Wazienski, Robert - 2000
We examine the effect of industrialization on female labor force participation for 62 countries. Two hypotheses are tested: the "emancipation hypothesis" and the "U-shaped hypothesis." Our results support the U-shaped hypothesis insofar as shifts in the distribution of occupations in early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176288
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Women workers in essential British metal and chemical industries during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, Elizabeth J. - 2023
Group 1 metal and chemical industries formed the essential suppliers of British war materials during WW2. Their industrial sectors covered metal manufacture, general and electrical engineering, vehicle production, aircraft production, shipbuilding, metal goods, chemicals and explosives, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335836
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Through Eyes in the Storm : Aspects of the Personal History of Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution
Galbi, Douglas A. - 2005
important insights into the effect of deprivation and brutality on the development of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066948