Nazli Aktakke, Meltem A. Aran, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet
{"title":"Gender Relations in Europe and Central Asia: Results from the Life in Transition Survey III","authors":"Nazli Aktakke, Meltem A. Aran, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3426165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3426165","url":null,"abstract":"This report presents a detailed gender analysis of the Life in Transition Survey Third (LITS Third), conducted in 2015-2016 in thirty-four countries of the Europe and Central Asia region. LITS is a unique dataset as it covers for the first-time issues related to asset ownership, care need in the household and gender norms. In addition, in a subset of the households that participated information was collected for both men and women allowing an analysis of gender intra-household dynamics. In total, over 51,000 respondents were covered in the survey. The results indicate that while gender relations, views, and women’s access and use of some opportunities have transitioned to more egalitarian ones, women still face challenges to fully participate in economic activity and have an equal say in household decision-making. Across all countries, women’s employment appears to be a main driver of greater quality across the domains analyzed in the report.","PeriodicalId":182410,"journal":{"name":"WGSRN: Other Gender Disparity (Sub-Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126538489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mothers' Employment and Children's Educational Gender Gap","authors":"Xiaodong Fan, Hanming Fang, S. Markussen","doi":"10.3386/W21183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W21183","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the connection between two concurrent trends since 1950: the narrowing and reversal of the educational gender gap and the increased labor force participation rate (LFPR) of married women. We hypothesize that the education production for boys is more adversely affected by a decrease in the mother's time input as a result of increasing employment. Therefore, an increase in the labor force participation rate of married women may narrow and even reverse the educational gender gap in the following generation. We use micro data from the Norwegian registry to directly show that the mother's employment during her children's childhood has an asymmetric effect on the educational achievement of her own sons and daughters. We also document a positive correlation between the educational gender gap in a particular generation and the LFPR of married women in the previous generation at the U.S. state level. We then propose a model that generates a novel prediction about the implications of these asymmetric effects on the mothers' labor supply decisions and find supporting evidence in both the U.S. and Norwegian data.","PeriodicalId":182410,"journal":{"name":"WGSRN: Other Gender Disparity (Sub-Topic)","volume":"484 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133614892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}