TY - BOOK ID - 137199756 TI - Do Gender Norms Become Less Traditional with Displacement? : The Case of Colombia PY - 2021 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology KW - Conflict KW - Culture and Development KW - Displaced Persons KW - Forced Displacement KW - Gender KW - Gender and Development KW - Gender and Social Development KW - Gender Norms KW - Internal Displacement KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Social Cohesion KW - Violence Against Women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137199756 AB - Conflict-induced displacement is associated with loss of human and physical capital and psychological trauma. Households and social structures that produce and reproduce gender norms are disrupted, providing opportunities for change. This paper operationalizes a definition of gender norms that brings together the behaviors and attitudes of displaced and non-displaced women using household survey data for Colombia. The results of a two-step estimation involving kernel-based propensity score matching and multilevel linear regression models show that gender norms condoning violence against women relax with displacement, while those that limit women's economic opportunities become more rigid. The findings also reveal a misalignment between attitudes and behaviors in other domains. Displaced women have less rigid patriarchal attitudes, but their ability to decide about contraception and their own earnings decreases following displacement. ER -