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Rowing with and against the flow: fatherhood of daughters and perception about women

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  • Okara, Assi
  • Tani, Massimiliano
  • Mbaye, Linguère Mously

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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.

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  • Okara, Assi & Tani, Massimiliano & Mbaye, Linguère Mously, 2025. "Rowing with and against the flow: fatherhood of daughters and perception about women," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1640, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:glodps:1640
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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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