RT Journal Article
T1 On the Gender Gap of Soft-Skills: the Spanish Case
A1 Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María
A1 López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
K1 Habilidades blandas - Modelos econométricos
K1 Igualdad de género
AB In recent years, many studies have referred to the interdependence between cognitive (hard-skills) and students’ academic performance. However, despite their relevance, soft-skills have not received the same treatment and have not been analysed as extensively, particularly from a gender perspective. Therefore, and bearing in mind that analysing from a gender perspective is essential to reduce occupational segregation and soft-skills can enhance young people’s personal and academic development, throughout this paper we have analysed the gender gap in soft-skills with a sample of 15-16 years old students from the Spanish region of Andalusia. To do so, we have used a recent innovation of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique. Our results show not only that the gender gap in soft-skills is correlated with gender stereotypes, but also that grade retention or being an immigrant show a greater degree of association with boys’ soft-skills than girls’, while mothers’ educational level is more correlated with the soft-skills of girls.
PB Springer Nature
YR 2022
FD 2022-09-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39347
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39347
LA eng
NO Ladrón de Guevara, M., López-Agudo, L. A., Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, O. D. (2022). “On the gender gap of soft-skills: the Spanish case”. Child Indicators Research, 16, 167-197.
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/16473
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 23 ene 2026