TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lalive, Rafael
AU  - Stutzer, Alois
        TI  - Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
        PY  - 2004/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1202
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1202
        AB  - Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms
on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’
approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that
“women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the
gender wage gap narrows by one fifth due to an increase by one standard deviation in the
approval. Rejecting an explanation in terms of discrimination, we find that employed women
are less (not more) satisfied with life in liberal communities where the gender wage gap is
smaller.
        KW  - subjective well-being
KW  - equal rights
KW  - gender discrimination
KW  - gender wage gap
KW  - social norms
        ER  -