history I've compiled from 1905 to 2023, 45% occurred between 1963 and 1973. The greatly increased employment of women, the …How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men's regarding the workplace, marriage, family … right to vote? The story begins with the civil rights movement and the somewhat fortuitous nature of the early and key women …

survived assaults on their property rights by Mexico and the US to persist as reservations into the 20th century. We found that …

-1917), one of the deadliest conflicts in world history. We find that, on average, insurgency events led to a large increase in … women and children. We show that violence was the main treatment channel, with variation in the intensity and nature of …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

administrative data from Mexico and two different empirical strategies, our results indicate that mothers' long-term exposure to … local violence prior to conception has detrimental effects on infant health at birth. The results suggest that loss of women …

life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men … the ages of 5 and 25. Increased longevity of women, therefore, occurred as the burden of infectious disease fell for all …. Our explanation does not tell us why women live longer than men, but it does help understand the timing of the increase …

women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … women, especially nonpatentees, were significantly more likely than men to be associated with innovations in consumer final … products or work outside the home pursued such improvements to benefit their families. The patterns suggest that framing women …

an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women and women with children, this effect is … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable … enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of …

The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved … the first quantitative estimates of the extent of White women's involvement in antebellum slave transactions as owners of … record. Contrary to the narrative, we find that White women were quite frequently noted as owners of record in transactions …

-owned establishments employed more women and paid women higher wages, creating a potential cycle between increased female business … ownership and increased female labor market participation. Female-owned establishments concentrated in sub-industries like women … from other women in the Population Census …