Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?

Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?

Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, female labour force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. Nation-wide individual-level data allow us to explore if random reservation of village leadership for females affected women’s access to j...

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Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
Subjects:
POLITICAL RESERVATION
FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
INDIA
PUBLIC WORK
NREGA
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37044
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spelling okr-10986-370442022-03-01T05:10:44Z Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference? POLITICAL RESERVATION FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION INDIA PUBLIC WORK NREGA Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, female labour force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. Nation-wide individual-level data allow us to explore if random reservation of village leadership for females affected women’s access to job opportunities, their demand for participation in the labour force, and income as well as intra-household bargaining in the short-and medium term. Gender reservation of local leadership affected female but not male participation in public works and regular labour markets, their income, and their influence on key household decisions with a lag, suggesting that such reservation affected social norms and stereotypes. 2022-02-28T13:45:06Z 2022-02-28T13:45:06Z 2022-02 Journal Article The Journal of Development Studies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37044 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor & Francis Journal Article India
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FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
INDIA
PUBLIC WORK
NREGA
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FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
INDIA
PUBLIC WORK
NREGA
Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?
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description Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, female labour force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. Nation-wide individual-level data allow us to explore if random reservation of village leadership for females affected women’s access to job opportunities, their demand for participation in the labour force, and income as well as intra-household bargaining in the short-and medium term. Gender reservation of local leadership affected female but not male participation in public works and regular labour markets, their income, and their influence on key household decisions with a lag, suggesting that such reservation affected social norms and stereotypes.
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title Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?
title_short Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?
title_full Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?
title_fullStr Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?
title_full_unstemmed Addressing declining female labor force participation in India : Does political empowerment make a difference?
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