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Title: Born to Care (or Not): How Gender Role Attitudes Affect Occupational Sorting
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Patrick, Carlianne Stephens, Heather Weinstein, Amanda |
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Born to Care (or Not): How Gender Role Attitudes Affect Occupational Sorting Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published online (11 January 2024). Also: https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12261 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Adolescence; Care Occupations; Childhood; Gender; Gender Equality/Inequality; Gender Gap; Gender Role Attitudes; Occupational Segregation; Occupations, Female; Wage Gap Occupation segregation explains a significant portion of the gender wage gap, with women working in lower paid female-dominated occupations. We examine how childhood and adolescent exposure to gender biased norms about work influence this occupational sorting. We document that early life exposure to traditional gender role attitudes, which view women's role as caretakers, increase women's likelihood of employment in care occupations and decrease the likelihood for men, thereby increasing the gender care occupation gap. A decomposition of the factors affecting this sorting shows that a primary channel is through differences in the choice of post-secondary field of study or major. Our results suggest that traditional gender role attitudes may work to segment the labor market for men and women and contribute to the gender wage gap. This suggests that more egalitarian gender role attitudes which increase the share of men entering care occupations would increase wages for both men and women, lowering the gender wage gap. |
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Patrick, Carlianne, Heather Stephens and Amanda Weinstein. "Born to Care (or Not): How Gender Role Attitudes Affect Occupational Sorting." Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations published online (11 January 2024).
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