Dr. Sultana Begum1 and Dr. Waqar Ahmad2
1, 2Department of Business and Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics,
Tishk International University, Erbil
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
DOI: 10.23918/ICABEP2021p24
Abstract
The seventh wave of world values survey is being conducted around the world with the aim of exploring the attitudes and beliefs towards gender, family, education, health, security and social tolerance based on the values of Socio, Economic, Political, Ethical, happiness and wellbeing. The first release of 2017-2020 has been released in Nov-2020. This paper uses the survey data empirically analyzes and explores the gender variance on the parameter of Economic Values attributes namely, income equality, private ownership, and Government responsibility. The main purpose of the study is to explore and analyze whether any difference of opinion exists between male and female on the economic values variables. The total respondents of the survey are around 1, 25,202 (N) among whom there were 58,021 Male and 67,181 Female, who represent fifty countries across the world from an age group of eighteen plus where the WVS survey was conducted from 2017 to 2020. The primary data collected from the survey was empirically analyzed and conclusions were drawn using SPSS by running the Mann-Whitney ‘U’ Test to find the variance between the male and female groups. The study contributes for the academic literature related to gender statistics and economic values across countries around the world.
Keywords: WVS, Economic Values, Gender variance, Income, Government responsibilit
ICABEP2021
International Conference on Accounting, Business, Economics and Politics
3rd joint conference organized by the collaboration of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics,
Tishk International University, College of Administration and Economics, Salahaddin University-Erbil, and
University of Szczecin, Poland.
