The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …

services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

: work incentives vary dramatically depending on family composition, and most women experience a number of different family … static and forwardlooking PTRs diverge, though this is more to do with differences in how women in families with different …

What is the role of married women in immigrant households? Their contribution to the labor market has traditionally … suggests that married immigrant women make labor supply decisions similar to those recently observed for native-born married … women, who are guided by their own opportunities in the labor market rather than by their spouses' employment trajectories. …