age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … sex. The pill also created a social multiplier effect by encouraging the delay of marriage generally and thus increasing a … to the power of the pill in lowering the costs of long-duration professional education for women. The evidence consists …

women in the American economy through an institution known as the "marriage bar." Marriage bars were policies adopted by … promotion from within, tenure-based salaries, and other modern personnel practices. The marriage bar, which had at its height …