Reflections of Employers' Gender Preferences in Job Ads in India: An Analysis of Online Job Portal Data

Chowdhury, Afra Rahman; Areias, Ana Carolina; Imaizumi, Saori; Nomura, Shinsaku; Yamauchi, Futoshi

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-8379

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“…We also contribute to the literature documenting the presence of explicit gender preferences in job ads (Kuhn and Shen, 2013;Helleseter et al, 2020;Ningrum et al, 2020;Chowdhury et al, 2018). In contrast to much of this literature, with the exception of Kuhn et al (2020), we observe applications data which allows us to investigate how job seekers respond to explicit gender requests.…”

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Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior

2021

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Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior

2021

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“…Men were generally preferred for jobs requiring more experience, sales-related jobs, machine-related jobs, and elementary skill jobs. Meanwhile, women were preferred for service, clerical, and housework or caregiving jobs (Chowdhury et al, 2018a).…”

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Gender-Based Employment Segregation

Das¹,

Kotikula²

2019

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“…In a more recent analysis of 800,000 job recruitment advertisements sourced from an online job portal in India, Chowdhury et al (2018) find that it is common to mention the preferred gender in job advertisements. Further, these advertisements tend to favor men over women.…”

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Does Culture Matter or Firm? Demand for Female Labor in Three Indian Cities

Das¹,

Mehta²,

Zumbyte³

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In discussing the inordinately low employment of Indian women in urban areas, several studies have argued that culture and attitudes have created a labor market that is inherently discriminatory. The unsaid corollary is that culture is slow and hard to change and so, women will stay out of the labor market until social change occurs. The empirical evidence on the role of culture is slim at best. This paper fills the void in the policy literature, as it assesses the relative role of culture, as signified by attitudes of employers, and firm characteristics in hiring women. The paper is based on a unique survey of 618 firms in three of the largest cities in the state of Madhya Pradesh (India)-Bhopal, Indore, and Gwalior. Using detailed descriptive, bivariate and multivariate analysis at the firm level, the hiring process, and attitudes toward male and female workers, the paper addresses the issue of culture and firm characteristics, while noting that the two are not necessarily in binary opposition. The results reinforce the conventional wisdom in some ways and are surprising in others. The most salient result is that employer attitudes matter much less for the chance that women will be hired, than do firm and location characteristics. This has significant policy implications, the most important of which is that female employment in urban India is amenable to policy intervention, and that it is not necessary to wait for culture to change.

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Reflections of Employers' Gender Preferences in Job Ads in India: An Analysis of Online Job Portal Data

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior

Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior

Gender-Based Employment Segregation

Does Culture Matter or Firm? Demand for Female Labor in Three Indian Cities

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