Evolved sex differences and occupational segregation

By Kingsley R. Browne. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

What Constrains Financial Inclusion for Women? Evidence from Indian Micro data (2017, background): “A broad thread running those these studies is the existence of a significant gender gap, which has been explained by lower financial literacy among women (Lusardi & Tufano, 2009), behavioral differences (Beck & Brown, 2011; Browne, 2006) or even institutional discrimination (Fletschner, 2009).”
Evolutionary Psychology and Family Business: A New Synthesis for Theory, Research, and Practice (2008, background): “Briefly, the EP view holds that men and women require different behavioral strategies to achieve reproductive fitness, and in consequence possess distinctive psychological architectures of aptitudes, motives, preferences, dispositions, biases, styles, and orientations (Browne, 2006; Feingold, 1994).”
On Motivated Role Selection: Gender Beliefs, Distant Goals, and Career Interest (2009, background): “…discrimination (e.g., Heilman, 2001; Tomaskovic-Devey, 1993), the socialization of achievement-related attitudes (e.g., Eccles, 1994), gender differences in desire to work with people versus things (Lippa, 1998), and evolved sex differences in personality and cognitive abilities (Browne, 2006).”
Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “…found that, on average, women tend to be more averse to risk than men and that, other things equal, women are more likely to forego activities that offer higher returns if these opportunities require them to bear too much risk (Fletschner et al., 2010; Croson and Gneezy, 2008, and; Browne, 2006).”