Barriers to Female Labour Force Participation

Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Nina Roussille (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Friday 17 October 2025 09:30 - 15:30

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About this event

How do gender norms influence economic behaviour, choices, and opportunities? This event will bring together researchers to present new evidence on the ways cultural expectations and social attitudes shape economic life.

Topics include how attitudes toward men and women evolve, the role of managers in transmitting gender norms, and the link between financial awareness and maternal labour supply.

Further sessions will address how anticipated discrimination affects education and career choices, the relationship between female entrepreneurship and trust in markets, and community-based approaches to empowering adolescent girls. Together these studies highlight how norms and perceptions can create barriers to equality, but also open avenues for effective policy responses.

▶ Conference Programme

▶ If you would like to attend in person please register here

▶ Participation online will be via zoom

For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe, by email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.