Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/323344 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1640
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
We investigate whether having a daughter in a patriarchal society gives fathers a reason to reject prevailing social norms favouring gender discrimination against women. In particular, we develop a utility (rather than behavioural) model to frame the problem and derive hypotheses that can be empirically tested using cross-sectional data from the Senegal 2023 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). We find that fathering daughters can positively influence men's attitudes toward gender equity. In particular, men with daughters exhibit more positive attitudes toward women compared to their peers without daughters. This finding is robust across various sub-samples, particularly regarding violence-related outcome variables.
Subjects: 
Men
daughters
perception about women
gender norms
utility
JEL: 
D63
J16
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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