Despite increasing educational attainment and greater labor market participation of women in the last decades … employment patterns, women’s occupational trajectories are more affected by discontinuity and part-time work. Previous research …

(18 percent). Consistent employment following maternity, either full-time or part-time, is characteristic of women with … more economic advantages. Women who experience consistent nonemployment disproportionately lack a high school degree, while … women with return to employment following a long break tend to be younger with lower wages prior to maternity. Race is one …