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

Published:2024-09-06 Issue:17 Volume:13 Page:2838
ISSN:2304-8158
Container-title:Foods
language:en
Short-container-title:Foods

Author:

Loginova Daria¹,Mann Stefan¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Socioeconomics, Agroscope, 8356 Ettenhausen, Switzerland

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.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/13/17/2838/pdf

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