Women may also have a preference for jobs that are compatible with their domestic responsibilities, such as part-time and flexible jobs, both of which are scarce in low- and middle-income countries (I

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps

• Explaining the Male-Female Wage Gap: Do Gender Role Attitudes Matter? (2024) · doi

  The analysis focuses on five factors representing gender-role attitudes that have not been systematically explored in the literature: preferred responsibility for income, preferred responsibility for household chores and child care, life priorities (career, family, others), preference for job flexibility, and prioritizing less demanding and stressful jobs over higher wages.

  Keywords: preferred responsibility focuses five factors representing gender role attitudes systematically explored literature income household chores
• PROTOCOL: Vocational and business training to increase women's participation in higher skilled occupations in low‐ and middle‐income countries: protocol for a systematic review (2016) · doi

  Women may also have a preference for jobs that are compatible with their domestic responsibilities, such as part-time and flexible jobs, both of which are scarce in low- and middle-income countries (ILO, 2009).

  Keywords: jobs women preference compatible domestic responsibilities part time flexible scarce middle income countries
• Gender stereotypes stem from the distribution of women and men into social roles. (1984) · doi

  Experiments 4 and 5 examined perceptions that might account for the belief that employed women are especially agentic: (a) A double burden of employment plus family responsibilities did not account for this belief, and (b) freedom of choice about being employed accounted for it reason-ably well.

  Keywords: account belief employed experiments examined perceptions women especially agentic double burden employment plus family responsibilities
• Gender Effect in Explaining Mobility Patterns in the Labor Market: A Case Study of <scp>T</scp>urkey (2014) · doi

  Although gender plays a significant role in job mobility patterns, traditionally imposed social constraints associated with childcare and household duties provide us with mixed results considering the behavior of women in the job market.

  Keywords: gender plays significant role mobility patterns traditionally imposed social constraints associated childcare household duties provide
• Economic necessity or self-actualization? Attitudes toward women's labour-force participation in East and West Germany (1994) · doi

  The contribution of women's labour-force participation to attitudes about the family is the focus of recent comparative research, but the relationships between gender, work, and attitudes have not yet been compared across national contexts that differ dramatically in economic conditions.

  Keywords: attitudes contribution women labour force participation family focus recent comparative relationships gender compared across national