The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations Among Adolescents.

Autor/inn/en	Kuhn, Andreas; Wolter, Stefan C.
Institution	Universität Zürich / Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Titel	The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations Among Adolescents.
Quelle	Zürich: Universität, IBW (2018), 56 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working Paper / Swiss Leading House Economics of Education. 151
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Übergang Schule - Beruf; Sexismus; Arbeitsmarkt; Berufswahl; Jugendlicher; Schweiz
Abstract	We test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereo-typical if they live in regions where the norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our empirical analysis, we combine rich survey data describing a sample of 1,434 Swiss adolescents in 8th grade with communal voting results dealing with gender equality and policy. We use the voting results to measure spatial variation in the local norm towards (more) gender equality. We find that adolescents living in localities with a stronger norm towards gender equality are significantly and substantively less likely to aspire for a gender-stereotypical occupation. This correlation may reflect different underlying mechanisms, however, and a more detailed analysis in fact reveals that the association between gender norms and occupational aspirations mainly reflects the intergenerational transmission of occupations from parents to their children.
Erfasst von	Informations- und Dokumentationszentrum IDES, Bern
Update	2019/4