Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases

This study found that ICT training resulted in university graduates being 26% more likely to work in the ICT sector

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 September 2018
Country:
Nigeria
Document Type:
Briefing
Theme:
Economic Growth
Authors:
Croke, K, Goldstein, M, Holla, A

Abstract

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.

This work is part of the Closing the Gender Gap in Africa: evaluating new policies and programmes for women’s economic empowerment programme

Citation

Croke, Kevin; Goldstein, Markus; Holla, Alaka. 2018. Can Job Training Decrease Women’s Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria. Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief;No. 28. World Bank, Washington, DC.

Can Job Training Decrease Women’s Self-Defeating Biases

Published 1 September 2018
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