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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Social Norms and Women's Labour Participation Friday, December 14, 2012 Levy Economics InstituteArlette CovarrubiasCandidate for Levy Economics Institute position of Research Scholar in the program Gender Equality and the EconomyFriday, December 14th2:00pmBlithewood, Room 203Social Norms and Women's Labour ParticipationMarried Women in Assembly Plant Employment: The Case of Tehuacan, Mexico AbstractThe aim of the paper is to deepen the understanding on how social norms influence married women’s participation in salaried employment. To this end, married women’s decisions to work in assembly plants of two towns in Tehuacán, Puebla: San Gabriel Chilac and Santiago Miahuatlán are analyzed. Three main moral arguments sustaining women should not work in assembly plants are identified. First, women are perceived as responsible of childbearing and household tasks. Secondly, it is sensed that married women who worked in these plants are promiscuous. Finally, it is men’s role is to be the economic provider of the family. Using a 2006 household survey data, it is tested whether wives and husbands’ disagreement on each of the moral arguments positively impacts women’s probability to participate on assembly plant employment. Characteristics of those households that were more likely to sustain these moral arguments are also identified. To this end, a Bivariate Probit regression model with disagreement on moral rules and participation in salaried employment as dependant variables is estimated.Findings suggest that wives’ disagreement on moral arguments significantly affects female participation in assembly plant employment. Conversely, only husband’s disagreement on working women being promiscuous influences their wives probability to work. The factors with which in turn are found to have an effect on disagreement on moral rules are years of education and age. Being from San Gabriel Chilac also influences women’s and men’s disagreement on women being promiscuous.For more information or a copy of paper please call or e-mail: 845-758-7710 or [email protected] Location: Blithewood Sponsor: Levy Economics Institute Contact: Kathleen Mullaly. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7710 Website: http://www.levyinstitute.org If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/