Wednesday 18 July 2018

Women, work, and socialism

a column by Pamela Campa and Michel Serafinelli for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Attitudes towards work and gender simultaneously shape, and are shaped by, the conventions, practices, and policies in a given place and time.

This column explores how politico-economic regimes affect attitudes towards gender roles and labour, exploiting the rise and fall of the Iron Curtain. Results show that women in state-socialist regimes tended to have less negative and less traditional views of work and labour force participation.

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