Introduction / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- Transitions over the lifecycle. Women working longer: facts and … some explanations / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The return to work and women's employment decisions / Nicole … Maestas -- Understanding why black women are not working longer / Joanna N. Lahey -- Family matters: caregiving, marriage, and …

Introduction / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- Transitions over the lifecycle. Women working longer: facts and … some explanations / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The return to work and women's employment decisions / Nicole … Maestas -- Understanding why black women are not working longer / Joanna N. Lahey -- Family matters: caregiving, marriage, and …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

reveals how the pay gap widens further down the line in women's careers, about 10 to 15 years out, as opposed to those … beginning careers after college. She examines five distinct groups of women over the course of the twentieth century: cohorts of … women who differ in terms of career, job, marriage, and children, in approximated years of graduation-1900s, 1920s, 1950s …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially just after 1970, and … the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women began to soar around the same year. We explore the … graduate women. Although the pill was approved in 1960 by the Food and Drug Administration and spread rapidly among married …

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family …. Tracing the demographic and labor force experiences of four cohorts of college women across the past century allows us to … observe the choices each made and how the constraints facing college women loosened over time. No cohort of college graduate …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …