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Gender-biased technological change : milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
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Things versus people: gender differences in vocational interests and in occupational preferences
Kuhn, Andreas; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 distinct learnable occupations in the Swiss apprenticeship system to describe the broad job content in these...
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Women in STEM : A Gender Gap to Innovation
Beede, David N. - 2014
Our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America's innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067091
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Gender-Biased Technological Change : Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming
Ager, Philipp; Goñi, Marc; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343959
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Does more math in high school increase the share of female STEM workers? : evidence from a curriculum reform
Biewen, Martin; Schwerter, Jakob - 2019
This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in STEM subjects and who later work in STEM occupations. The reform had two important aspects: (i) it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993899
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Non-college occupations, workplace routinization, and the gender gap in college enrollment
Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023
This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women overtook men in college-going. Using instrumental variation from routinization, we show that the decline of routine-intensive occupations displaced the non-college occupations of...
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Does Rosie like riveting? : male and female occupational choices
Lordan, Grace; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016
three measures that proxy the content and context of the work in an occupation, which we label 'people,' 'brains,' and …
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Flexible jobs make parents happier: evidence from Australia
Yu, Shuye; Postepska, Agnieszka - 2020
Recent studies have found that self-reported life satisfaction drops during the transition into parenthood which has been mainly attributed to work-family conflict. This study investigates whether different forms of flexible employment can alleviate this drop in parental life satisfaction during...
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Does childbirth change the gender gap in well-being between partners?
Plachá, Veronika - 2024
This study examines gender disparities beyond pay gaps, focusing on the impact of childbirth on overall well-being. Traditional gender roles, especially in parenting, lead to unequal divisions of labor and affect both partners' well-being, yet the shift in well-being after childbirth remains...
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Impact of Mother's Time Allocation on Child's Health
Rahman, Khwaja - 2016
child height as the indicator of child health. The empirical results show that the only positive and significant impact on … child‟s health is mothers' height. This study then sets out to investigate the effects of mother‟s time allocation in …'s time on children's health and nutritional status, using data from surveys undertaken in the Bicol region of Philippines for …
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