study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …

the hypothesis that women who plan to work intermittently choose jobs with lower rewards to work experience in return for … school. While it is also true that women in the sample plan to work fewer years than men, these differences do not explain … the observed gender differences in expected earnings profiles. We also find no evidence that gender differences in …