Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190011 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/166
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide. We look at differences in outcomes for male and female enterprises and their sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of high female participation in entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than women staying in female-dominated sectors. Factors including entrepreneurial skill/abilities and credit/human capital constraints do not explain women's sectoral choices. However, information about profitability, male role models' influence, and exposure to the sector from family and friends are critical in helping women circumvent or overcome norms undergirding occupational segregation.
Subjects: 
gender
norms
labour market participation
entrepreneurship
small enterprises
JEL: 
J16
O17
O12
D22
D24
L25
L26
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-392-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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