Presenting a comparative analysis of African American women's and white women's relationships to home and work, this study provides an overview of how this shift influences the shape of families and the American economy. It brings together the issues and statistics to put gender at the center of...

We have entered a new moment of negotiation over gender, class, and women's relationship to work at home and for pay that will shape policy formation in coming decades. I argue that underlying such debate is a profound transformation of women's labor. Behind women's alternate paths into the...

Comparison of two cohorts of African-American and white women, in 1972 and 1987 respectively, reveals poverty has dropped sharply across cohorts for both races. For both groups, the explanation is tied primarily to increased labor force attachment and, among African-American unmarried women,...