While skills development programs can improve labor market outcomes for women in highly gendered societies in the short-term, they tend to dilute over time by strongly-held restrictive norms and practices.
There is no doubt that the preponderance of social media offers an attractive opportunity to study and change social norms about women’s work, particularly among young voracious consumers. The study
This comprehensive report from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) stresses the need to engage and empower men and boys in critically evaluating local norms around masculinities and challenging
Social norms research is a rich, inter-disciplinary field that borrows from psychology, economics, sociology, and statistics, among others, to measure beliefs and design programs to change them. This J-PAL blog
This 8-step guide offers a useful illustration and recommendations for changing gender norms and advancing women's economic rights. Patriarchal gender norms create barriers to women's access to fairly paid and
Outmigration has become an alternative source of employment for millions of South Asian men and women unable to find jobs in their own countries. In a nascent area of study that looks
On March 30, Professor Alice Evans, a well-known scholar of gender disparities, presented her provocative hypothesis to explain the stagnant female labor force participation in South Asia to an attentive
Even in the age of social media saturated with updates and general airing of opinions, could it be possible that people misperceive something as fundamental as a woman’s right to
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Building an Equitable Future? BRAC’s STAR Program and Young Women’s Economic Empowerment in Bangladesh (2023)
While skills development programs can improve labor market outcomes for women in highly gendered societies in the short-term, they tend to dilute over time by strongly-held restrictive norms and practices.
Shifting Discriminatory Gender Norms Affecting Women in the Workplace: Social Media Campaigns in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam (2023)
There is no doubt that the preponderance of social media offers an attractive opportunity to study and change social norms about women’s work, particularly among young voracious consumers. The study
Transforming MENtalities: Gender Equality and Masculinities in India (2023)
This comprehensive report from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) stresses the need to engage and empower men and boys in critically evaluating local norms around masculinities and challenging
Measuring Social Attitudes and Norms in Impact Evaluations: Examples from India (2020)
Social norms research is a rich, inter-disciplinary field that borrows from psychology, economics, sociology, and statistics, among others, to measure beliefs and design programs to change them. This J-PAL blog
8 Steps to Change Gender Norms for Women’s Economic Rights on International Women’s Day.
This 8-step guide offers a useful illustration and recommendations for changing gender norms and advancing women's economic rights. Patriarchal gender norms create barriers to women's access to fairly paid and
Beyond Money: Does Migration Experience Transfer Gender Norms? Empirical Evidence from Kerala, India (2022)
Outmigration has become an alternative source of employment for millions of South Asian men and women unable to find jobs in their own countries. In a nascent area of study that looks
Honor-Income Tradeoff with Alice Evans (2023)
On March 30, Professor Alice Evans, a well-known scholar of gender disparities, presented her provocative hypothesis to explain the stagnant female labor force participation in South Asia to an attentive
How Are Gender Norms Perceived? (2023)
Even in the age of social media saturated with updates and general airing of opinions, could it be possible that people misperceive something as fundamental as a woman’s right to