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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Autores principales: Kosec, Katrina, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung
Formato: Opinion Piece
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: The Conversation 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142919
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description 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 feeling economically left behind affects gender attitudes. We used a special type of survey technique to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their economic well-being in relation to other households. Half of the study participants were randomly primed to feel that they were at the bottom of a wide income distribution.
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spelling CGSpace1429192025-12-08T10:29:22Z Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions Kosec, Katrina Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung work force gender women's empowerment gender attitudes capacity development empowerment decision making men poverty equality women 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 feeling economically left behind affects gender attitudes. We used a special type of survey technique to subtly alter respondents’ perception of their economic well-being in relation to other households. Half of the study participants were randomly primed to feel that they were at the bottom of a wide income distribution. 2021-01-01 2024-05-22T12:11:19Z 2024-05-22T12:11:19Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142919 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133520 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105218 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133537 Open Access The Conversation Kosec, Katrina; and Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung. 2021. Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions. The Conversation. First published on January 26, 2021. https://theconversation.com/feeling-relatively-poor-increases-support-for-women-in-the-workplace-but-men-still-dont-want-them-making-household-decisions-151540
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Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions
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title_full Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions
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title_short Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions
title_sort feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace but men still don t want them making household decisions
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gender
women's empowerment
gender attitudes
capacity development
empowerment
decision making
men
poverty
equality
women
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