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

author(s) Kosec, Katrina - Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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  • Melanesia
  • Oceania
  • World
  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • Southern Asia
  • Asia
  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Eastern Asia
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Kosec, Katrina; Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, '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, The Conversation US, 2021

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Abstract

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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