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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Main Authors:	Croke, Kevin, Goldstein, Markus, Holla, Alaka
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	JOB TRAINING TRAINING GENDER BIAS GENDER WAGE GAP HIRING BIAS ROLE MODELS GENDER GAP INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT SECTOR GENDER INNOVATION LAB AFRICA GENDER POLICY WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
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

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spelling	okr-10986-304952021-05-25T10:54:42Z Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria Croke, Kevin Goldstein, Markus Holla, Alaka JOB TRAINING TRAINING GENDER BIAS GENDER WAGE GAP HIRING BIAS ROLE MODELS GENDER GAP INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT SECTOR GENDER INNOVATION LAB AFRICA GENDER POLICY WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT 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. 2018-10-02T19:59:32Z 2018-10-02T19:59:32Z 2018-10 Brief 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 English Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief;No. 28 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Nigeria
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topic	JOB TRAINING TRAINING GENDER BIAS GENDER WAGE GAP HIRING BIAS ROLE MODELS GENDER GAP INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT SECTOR GENDER INNOVATION LAB AFRICA GENDER POLICY WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
spellingShingle	JOB TRAINING TRAINING GENDER BIAS GENDER WAGE GAP HIRING BIAS ROLE MODELS GENDER GAP INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ICT SECTOR GENDER INNOVATION LAB AFRICA GENDER POLICY WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Croke, Kevin Goldstein, Markus Holla, Alaka Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
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relation	Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief;No. 28
description	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.
format	Brief
author	Croke, Kevin Goldstein, Markus Holla, Alaka
author_facet	Croke, Kevin Goldstein, Markus Holla, Alaka
author_sort	Croke, Kevin
title	Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
title_short	Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
title_full	Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
title_fullStr	Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed	Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
title_sort	can job training decrease women's self-defeating biases? experimental evidence from nigeria
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	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
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Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria

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