Male Social Status and Women's Work

• DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181086
• Publication Date: 2018-05-22T19:01:28Z
• Authors: Arielle Bernhardt; Erica Field; Rohini Pande; Natalia Rigol; Simone Schaner; Charity Troyer-Moore
• Keywords: Opposition (politics)

Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have shown that gender norms can help explain these differences in women's work, but the channels through which impact employment decisions are not well understood. We present novel data on spouses' preferences and perceptions community attitudes about female rural India document associations work. find perceived social cost work falls men husbands' opposition to is associated their wives' lower take-up employment.