of work undergraduate and postgraduate placement practices in the arts and cultural sector, in order to demonstrate the …

This research focuses on the role played by cultural norms in the long run persistence of gender inequalities. Cultural … norms about gender roles are considered to be endogenous and can generate gender inequality and low development traps …. Indeed, when the gender gap is internalized, it leads to inegalitarian views about gender roles. Due to these inegalitarian …

labour-market outcomes across individuals. Peer effects work first by creating pressure on labor-market participation, second …: gender and ethnic groups who are less integrated in the labour market benefit more from peer effect. Finally, networks …

, particularly the share of male partners in household work, constitute important but somehow unaddressed issues. We use the French … female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share … of household work. We show that though a better relative position of the woman in the labor market increases her husband …

. The second measures the extent of the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs and explores the existence of … gender-differentiated effects of sharing norms and the allocation of tasks within the household on the technical efficiency …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

highlight a definite gender pattern, with a strong association between early disadvantage and obesity in women, but not in men …