Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

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 …

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

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

Recent research documents that while men are eager to compete, women often shy away from competitive environments. A … consequence is that few women enter and win competitions. Using experimental methods we examine how affirmative action affects … competitive entry. We find that when women are guaranteed equal representation among winners, more women and fewer men enter …

The question of the effects of race and sex discrimination laws on relative economic outcomes for blacks and women has … discrimination/equal pay laws reduced the relative employment of both black women and white women …

We provide an overview of research that indicates that older women face unique challenges and opportunities with …, showing that poverty increases with age for women due to older women often outliving their spouses and becoming widowed. We … discuss research that shows that women benefit more than men from working longer. We then note that older women face …

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of … 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school … reductions observed for women with school-age children being attributable to additional child care responsibilities (the "COVID …