In this paper, we study foreign ownership as a vehicle for transferring gender norms across international borders …. Specifically, we analyze how the wage differential between men and women in Swedish firms is affected by the degree of gender … inequality in the home country of foreign investors. The results suggest that gender norms of the home country matter-the gender …

history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender … households. As women have entered the labor market in greater numbers and gender wage differentials have declined, female … differences in the ease of access to superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. While gender …

measures like the gender wage gap. …