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Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...
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Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...
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Of all the changes in the history of women's market work, few have been more impressive than the rapid emergence and feminization of the clerical sector and the related decline in manufacturing employment for women. Although a century ago few women were clerical workers, as early as 1920 22% of...
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Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the...
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Pharmacy has become a female-majority profession that is highly remunerated with a small gender earnings gap and low … Surveys and the Current Population Surveys, we explore the gender earnings gap, the penalty to part-time work, labor force …
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Pharmacy has become a female-majority profession that is highly remunerated with a small gender earnings gap and low … Surveys and the Current Population Surveys, we explore the gender earnings gap, the penalty to part-time work, labor force …
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"In Career and Family, Claudia Goldin builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the … writes, treat the symptoms and not the disease of gender inequality in the workplace and economy. Goldin points to data that … economy is trapped in an old way of doing business; work structures have not adapted as more women enter the workforce. Gender …
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