positive effect on women's career investment by almost eliminating the chance of becoming pregnant and thus the cost of having … career woman's likelihood of finding an appropriate mate after professional school. We present a collage of evidence pointing … of the striking coincidences in the timing of changes in career investment, marriage age, state laws, and pill use among …

This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly ….S. business school, are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly … rising gender gap in earnings: differences in training prior to MBA graduation; differences in career interruptions; and …

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … cohorts.' Each cohort made choices concerning career and family subject to different constraints. The first cohort, graduating … college from the beginning of the twentieth century to the close of World War I, had either family or career.' The second …