TY  - RPRT
        AU  - González, Felipe
AU  - Prem, Mounu
AU  - Dessauer, Cristine von
        TI  - Empowerment or Indoctrination? Female Training Programs under Dictatorship
        PY  - 2024/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17163
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17163
        AB  - Autocrats often control social organizations to disseminate their ideology. We examine the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973–1990), where conservative military forces controlled female social organizations to promote traditional roles for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training programs aimed at fostering domestic skills. Our findings reveal these programs facilitated women's entry into the labor market without changing their political views. Decades later, these programs are still linked to higher female labor force participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy.
        KW  - women
KW  - centers
KW  - labor force participation
KW  - empowerment
KW  - dictatorship
        ER  -