The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

brief case study of women's labour force participation in India, where the direct link between gender attitudes and women …Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the … intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized …

This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries … more detail specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women’s employment. I present examples of policies …

ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply … workforce, do employers turn to women to fill in the gap? Do women enter traditionally male occupations and industries, so that … with its historical regional patterns. We find that as the sex ratio declined, female participation increased, women …

This study explores the effect of social institutions such as religion, caste, and the household on women's decision to …. Using data from two rounds of the Kerala Migration Survey - KMS 2013 and 2018 - women's labor force participation (LFP) is … Muslim women from participating in the labor force, thereby enabling such participation in the latter period of study. We …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force … group of married couples (non-network treatment) in low-income neighborhoods of Delhi, India. In the second treatment arm … reinforces (conservative) social norms about women's (outside) work …

women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …