Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family …. Tracing the demographic and labor force experiences of four cohorts of college women across the past century allows us to … observe the choices each made and how the constraints facing college women loosened over time. No cohort of college graduate …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the … history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …

that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living … increased opportunity cost in women's foregone wages with no decrease in time allocated to childcare. We see the lowest …

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult … players in 1970 but are 25% today. We ask whether women were more likely to be advanced and/or hired with the use of blind …

This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably … matched pairs of men and women applied for jobs as waiters and waitresses at 65 restaurants in Philadelphia. The 130 … applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The results provide statistically significant evidence of sex discrimination …

Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …

This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …