Economics Research Seminar Series: Diana Contreras Suárez, University of Melbourne

Research topic: Leveraging Women's Views to Influence Gendered Attitudes to Women Working: Evidence from an Online Intervention in Indonesia 

Diana Contreras Suárez, University of Melbourne

Topic

Leveraging Women's Views to Influence Gendered Attitudes to Women Working: Evidence from an Online Intervention in Indonesia 

abstract

How to influence gendered attitudes that drive behavior in relation to women’s participation in employment is not well understood. We provide randomly selected participants with information on the extent of i) wives' support for women with children working; ii) husbands’ support for sharing day-to-day childcare; and iii) mothers’ and mothers-in-law’s support for working women. As a result, the probability of participants choosing an online career mentoring course for women over a shopping voucher of equal value increased by 25%. Suggestive evidence points to information on childcare norms being more salient for men and mothers’/in-law’s support more salient for women.

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