Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302680 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17163
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Autocrats often control social organizations to disseminate their ideology. We examine the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973–1990), where conservative military forces controlled female social organizations to promote traditional roles for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training programs aimed at fostering domestic skills. Our findings reveal these programs facilitated women's entry into the labor market without changing their political views. Decades later, these programs are still linked to higher female labor force participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy.
Subjects: 
women
centers
labor force participation
empowerment
dictatorship
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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