Gender roles influence economic expectations
Women expect higher rates of inflation than men.
Socialised gender norms may influence the economic expectations men and women have.
A recent study published in
PNAS suggests that women are more likely expect higher future inflations rates than men, due to common gender roles.
Women largely do more grocery shopping than men, and therefore routinely see different price signals, because grocery prices are volatile. This means many women remember price increases more acutely and predict higher inflation rates.
This in turn affects how and what women buy, but is a result of social conditioning, not personal innate characteristic.