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Indeed, unfortunately we did not test this, but what else is future research for? ;)

🎯 Implications:

1) Potentially, mismatches between perceived skills and job tasks might deter girls from entering tech-heavy roles.

2) To close the gender gap in occupations, we need to address perceptions of skill fit, not just offer better hours or pay.

🩺💻: The popular “people vs. things” dichotomy is a multidimensional preference structure:

💥Girls dislike technical tasks, but boys are fine with both technical & social tasks.

🔍 Key insights:

- Girls avoid jobs requiring technical skills.
- Both genders like social skills.
- Girls prefer creative and routine tasks.
- Both genders appreciate a high salary (no sig. diff.).
- Girls prefer a meaningful job and family-friendliness.

We conducted a choice experiment among Swiss teens shows:

💰Boys and girls have similar preferences for workplace characteristics (salary, family-friendliness, meaningfulness).

💻 Skill requirements—especially technical tasks (IT reliance)—are responsible for gender differences.💥

Traditionally, researchers have focused on factors like salary or family-friendly hours to explain why men and women choose different jobs.

But what about skill requirements (e.g., creativity required for work tasks; strong IT reliance)?