Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …

professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course identifying and analyzing restrictions and interruptions of employment … life. Among institutional determinants welfare benefits have a negative effect on the market labor participation of women …

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force … presence in the household of preschool and school-age children and/or the elderly and disabled affects women's likelihood of … any person aged 75 or older) significantly increases prime-age urban women's likelihood of participating in market work …

The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent … earnings of mothers and grandmothers, suggesting that the life-cycle impact of children on women is larger than previously …

participation rates and reduced working hours amongst mothers. Although the decline in earnings for women is very similar regardless … of their breadwinner status in the household pre-children, women with greater access to workplace flexibility are more …