Married women's labor force participation (LFP) increased dramatically in the United States between the 1940 and 1960 … are able to account for over 50 percent of the increase in married women's LFP and also generate large movements in …

entitlements in other OECD countries, explains 29 percent of the decrease in US women's labor force participation relative to these … women are more likely than women in other countries to have full time jobs and to work as managers or professionals. …

supply of women who were currently married in 1950 and 1960. Using WWII mobilization rates by state, we find a wartime impact … on weeks worked and the labor force participation of married white (non-farm) women in both 1950 and 1960. The impact …, moreover, was experienced almost entirely by women in the top half of the education distribution. …

less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by reducing their labor supply by about half an hour, consistent with …. Women's response to their husband's treatment is instead weak and rarely statistically significant, possibly due to heavier …

The converging roles of men and women are among the grandest advances in society and the economy in the last century …

This paper develops a learning model of cultural change to investigate why women's labor force participation (LFP) and … attitudes toward women’s work both changed dramatically. In the model, women's beliefs about the long-run payoff from working …