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Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force …. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … to change asymmetrically for women versus men …
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Whereas the overwhelming majority of work-family discussions center on the needs of workers with children, this Article highlights the importance of conceptualizing such discussions in a comprehensive fashion that extends beyond child care. Specifically, the Article explores work-family policies...
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Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries …
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national financial system by using efficiently the potential of women. Gender equality is in the focus of international …
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Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that long lasting institutions like religion, legal traditions, and family practices, also matter. This paper provides an empirical assessment of the relative importance of...
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and instrumenting region-year variations of Korean women's exposure to those articles by Bartik IV, we separate out the … newspaper coverage of feminism after the mid-2010s caused a steep change in women's perceptions of gender norms. This change in … women's attitudes affected both spouses' time use in household labor and women's welfare. Wives more influenced by feminism …
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substantial increase in permanent income for around 1:8 million women, to study its effects on outcomes related to both marital … stability and women’s bargaining power within the household. We find that the reform increased the probability of divorce …/separation among senior highly educated women but had no impact on the low-educated. Instead, the latter gained considerable bargaining …
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The share of household resources devoted to different children may depend on each child's gender, birth order, age, or relationship to their caretaker. However, it is challenging to determine whether parents favor certain types of children as consumption data is typically collected at the...
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Current perceptions on general issues arise as a result of both logic and rhetoric, with logic focusing on proof and rhetoric on persuasion. Arguably, rhetoric plays the larger part. Traditionally, rhetoric related to individual disputes, or 'micro' issues. Modern analyses have focused on...
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Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …
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