The work-family conflict is a significant barrier to women's equality in the workplace. As many commentators have noted … with envy, the United States stands apart from most European countries in its failure to give women a legal right to paid …' laws are paternalistic towards women, protecting the special relationship between a woman and her child. The American …

services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …

Conditions we first show that high income married or cohabiting women do twice as much housework as single women in Southern … with respect to relative wages. We thus present positive evidence for the presence of a “second-shift” that women face in …