Help or Hindrance? Religion's Impact on Gender Inequality in Attitudes and Outcomes

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Patriarchal Norms, Religion, and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Turkey (2015, methodology): “Using World Value Surveys data, Seguino (2011) finds that religiosity is positively associated with gender inequitable attitudes.”
Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom (2012, background): “Religiosity in general has been related to a more traditional view of women’s role (Jaeger, 2010; Seguino, 2011); previous studies have found that Muslim women in India have lower participation rates than women of other religions (Das and Desai, 2003).”
Female Migration: A Way Out of Discrimination (2015, methodology): “The rationale for using discrimination based on sexual orientation as an instrumental variable for gender discrimination lies in the obvious connection between the level of gender hierarchy and emphasis on the heterosexual family and women’s primary role as (unpaid) caretaker (Seguino, 2011).”
Education and gender role attitudes (2020, background): “For example, gender role attitudes are found to be associated with religiosity (Seguino 2011), agricultural history (Hansen et al. 2015), and the agricultural environment faced by the first settled farming communities (Alesina et al. 2013).”