Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation …. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are …

gender that favor men, by marital status and gender that favor married men over married women, and by gender, marital, and … forced out of the labor force to care for children as prescribed by gender norms and the division and specialization of labor …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on … the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …

parttime employment opportunities have boosted women’s participation in the labour force. By contrast, there is no such clear … effect on women’s participation in the labour market in countries with relatively high degrees of employment protection. The …

men and women, since there is a very gendered take-up, with only women typically requesting part-time work. After the law … was enacted, employers were 49% less likely to hire women of childbearing age, 40% more likely to separate from them, and … similar age. The results are similar using older women unaffected by the law as a comparison group. Moreover, the law …

norms with respect to housework, where women were the main providers of care within the household, but egalitarian gender … norms with respect to the labor market, where most women participated in the labor market full-time. Patriarchal gender … increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an …

Population Survey between 2002 and 2019. Specifically, we look at the change in labor market behavior of women when their child …

to the emergence of new labor opportunities for women. We conclude that, while useful, supply-side economic reforms are … work opportunities for women. …