employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full … different research designs to show that women's relative wages grew rapidly in the aftermath of this legislation. The data show … little evidence of short-term changes in women's employment, but some results suggest that firms reduced their hiring and …

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women's labor market activity. From May to July, the … employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … allocation and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women's summer work …

We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … industry structure. For a given change in the exposure to automation across commuting zones, women were more likely than men to …

Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …

market outcomes of Black and white women, as well as Black men, during and after the two World Wars. Their labor inputs … experiences of women and Black workers during and after the World Wars …

Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after … up and as women work more hours, the motherhood penalty is greatly reduced, especially for the less-educated group. But …

the goal of lengthening work lives, especially for older women. In the United States, the Age Discrimination in Employment … the Civil Rights Act bars discrimination against women. However, because gender and age (and disability) discrimination … evidence that age discrimination is worse for women than for men …

information on agency ownership. We find that female-owned agencies specialized in vacancies for women, thereby expanding the … advertised more skilled occupations to women than did male-owned agencies, leading to a 5.5% higher wage for women. On the other … vacancies for women and homogeneous, lower-skill occupations. However, in choosing to establish an agency and to specialize in …

the preschool and school-aged children of working women during WWII. It remains, to this day, the only example in US … programs became well-funded but were late to start, limited in scope, and incapable of greatly increasing women's employment in … the aggregate. They were more numerous in places that already had high participation rates of women suggesting that they …