Author :Raquel Fernández
Source : Research Journal New York University, CEPR, NBER, November 2006 1.0 : Introduction
Woman, Work and Culture by Raquel Fernandez is the choice of journal that I choose. In this journal, culture can be defined as a body of share understanding, knowledge and practice, therefore to understand the differences of culture, space and social group is in working time. Then, culture has big impact to the economic outcome where it could be different across environments. When there are issues on economic phenomena, instead of culture’s role that needed explanation, traditional strategy has been used to interpret the variation with difference in the technology, policies and institution. Other than that, in the next few years time, the effect of culture will be so much more different that the culture that we used to know and it will be on a large set of questions. The main focus on this journal is about women’s participation in the formal labor market. In the 20th century, women’s role has almost certainly has changed as woman’s role in an organization has increased even though they are married throughout the years. This could be because the impact of the time period where there were some rises in service sector, the circulation of technology that allowed house chores become more easier and less energy consuming and contraception pills where legally sold in the market that allowed women to control their pregnancy level. Besides that, another survey has shown that the ongoing increase in women’s labor force is because of the steady growth in cultural beliefs on the proper role of woman in an organization. Indeed, another data shown that men whose mothers worked while they were growing up tend to be married to the women that also works. This shown that, the men’s mother played an important role in the change in female labor supply as when they are brought up by a working mother, they