Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things?
According to gender personality traits, women are more interested in people, whereas men are more interested in things. The goal of this research is to see if there is a gender gap in financial literacy and if these disparities can be explained by different areas of interest. A convenience sample of...
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| author | Sigurdur Gudjonsson Inga Minelgaite Kari Kristinsson Sigrún Pálsdóttir |
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| description | According to gender personality traits, women are more interested in people, whereas men are more interested in things. The goal of this research is to see if there is a gender gap in financial literacy and if these disparities can be explained by different areas of interest. A convenience sample of nearly a thousand responses was received in quantitative research. The findings clearly show that women have lower financial literacy than men, but there is no indication that this is due to men and women’s differing interests in people and things. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c3b63728bc5c48848d667c55eea0e1a52023-11-24T12:36:41ZengMDPI AGAdministrative Sciences2076-33872022-11-0112417910.3390/admsci12040179Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things?Sigurdur Gudjonsson0Inga Minelgaite1Kari Kristinsson2Sigrún Pálsdóttir3School of Business, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavik, IcelandSchool of Business, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavik, IcelandSchool of Business, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavik, IcelandSchool of Business, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavik, IcelandAccording to gender personality traits, women are more interested in people, whereas men are more interested in things. The goal of this research is to see if there is a gender gap in financial literacy and if these disparities can be explained by different areas of interest. A convenience sample of nearly a thousand responses was received in quantitative research. The findings clearly show that women have lower financial literacy than men, but there is no indication that this is due to men and women’s differing interests in people and things.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/12/4/179financial literacypersonality traitsgender differences |
| spellingShingle | Sigurdur Gudjonsson Inga Minelgaite Kari Kristinsson Sigrún Pálsdóttir Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things? Administrative Sciences financial literacy personality traits gender differences |
| title | Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things? |
| title_full | Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things? |
| title_fullStr | Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things? |
| title_short | Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things? |
| title_sort | financial literacy and gender differences women choose people while men choose things |
| topic | financial literacy personality traits gender differences |
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