Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions

Feeling poor relative to others can spur families to support women in pursuing work outside the household and to invest more in girls’ schooling, according to our new study. But that does not mean women become more empowered. In 2018, we conducted a survey experiment in Papua New Guinea to see how f...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Kosec, Katrina, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung
Format:	Opinion Piece
Language:	Inglés
Published:	The Conversation 2021
Subjects:	work force gender women's empowerment gender attitudes capacity development empowerment decision making men poverty equality women
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142919