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On the Gender Gap of Soft-Skills: the Spanish Case Ladrón de Guevara Rodríguez, María López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David Habilidades blandas - Modelos econométricos Igualdad de género https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/16473 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. 2025-07-15T11:52:05Z 2025-07-15T11:52:05Z 2022-09-14 journal article 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. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39347 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Springer Nature