increasing female labor force participation and narrowing gender inequities in the labor market. …This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force … prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or stalling of gains thereafter, with a plateauing of female labor force …

-Mortensen-Pissarides model capturing the salient features of our data. Key elements of the model are an extensive margin (i.e., labor force … participation) and intensive margin (i.e., variable intensity) of search effort. The model attributes a major role to the production …