Trends in occupational segregation by gender in a post-communist country

Jan Gromadzki

No 09/2019, IBS Working Papers from Instytut Badan Strukturalnych

Abstract: The communist states promoted women’s participation in the labour market and encouraged women to enter male-dominated occupations, which should have resulted in relatively low levels of occupational segregation by gender. I show that after the transition to the market economy, the level of occupational segregation by gender in Poland did not increase, but remained rather stable. I exploit the cohort and regional variation in exposure to communist propaganda to analyse the role of social norms in shaping occupational segregation by gender. The results suggest that the fostering of women’s empowerment by communist authorities may have been limited to the early phase of the communist era.

Keywords: Occupational segregation; Gender; Economic transition; Communism; Culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J24 P26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2019-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gen, nep-his, nep-hme and nep-tra
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