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Is the Behavioural Gender Gap Decreasing? Evidence from Food Consumption in Swiss Single-Person Households

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: While Switzerland has made some progress over the past few decades in treating men and women more equally, this study intends to find out whether Swiss men and women's food consumption patterns also converged between 1990 and 2017. After analysing 1.8 million observations of one-member households' food baskets, we found that gender gaps are increasing significantly for 16 of 70 studied foods, decreasing significantly for another 16 of 70 studied foods and not changing significantly for more than half of the studied foods. On average, the gender gap in food consumption in Switzerland has increased over time. We conclude that behavioural differences between genders and culturally induced gender differences (e.g., unequal career chances) are largely unrelated.

Source: Foods

DOI: 10.3390/foods13172838

Authors: Daria Loginova, Stefan Mann

Institution: Agroscope

Language: English

Topic: Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Zero hunger

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,296