Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
Gender-based occupational segregation – where women are concentrated in low-paid or low-profit sectors – is a non-trivial source of the gender wage gap worldwide, accounting for as much as 50 percent of the gap in some countries (World Bank 2011)....
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/939011538418261513/Can-Job-Training-Decrease-Womens-Self-Defeating-Biases-Experimental-Evidence-from-Nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30495 |
| Summary: | Gender-based occupational segregation –
where women are concentrated in low-paid or low-profit
sectors – is a non-trivial source of the gender wage gap
worldwide, accounting for as much as 50 percent of the gap
in some countries (World Bank 2011). There is evidence that
women's biases about their own potential can affect
their performance and aspirations. Through an experiment in
Nigeria, we found that an information and communications
technology (ICT) training resulted in university graduates
being 26 percent more likely to work in the ICT sector. |
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