patriarchic as well as in modern societies? We experimentally assess men's and women's preferences to compete in a traditional … society where women and men have similar rights and entitlements alongside a patriarchic and a matrilineal society which have … inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …

German couples. I additionally show that the arrival of children leads to a stronger increase in the share of housework … performed by women in West Germany and that women are responsible for a larger share of child care as those from the East. A …

the appropriate role of men and women in society: sexual violence increases when the perpetrator is more gender …

-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal …

technological progress increasing the demand for non-routine social and cognitive skills, traditionally attributed to women. We do … at the individual level. Our findings show that the share of women indeed rises most strongly in non-routine occupations … women in the upper parts of the overall wage distribution rises significantly less. …

microdata from 1982 to 2012 reveal that regional dispersion is large for married women's regular full-time participation in the … in the latter group. Convergence in married women's regular full-time participation is only observed in the traditional … major source of convergence for young women's participation, their behavior did not become alike across regions …