attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey … and influencing time spent for "traditional" female activities is of particular interest. The paper finds that white … more time for religious activities and, to some extent, for food management than white females, while there are no ethnic …

time devoted each day to different work activities. We focus on the distinction between time spent with insiders (employees …

countries on four continents there is no difference—men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The … facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is …

1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher … remunerated at a lower rate in part-time than in full-time employment. Thus, the larger proportion of women than men in part …

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. I find that family-related constraints and dissatisfaction with … other fields once women's relatively high exit rates from male fields generally are taken into account. …