Mutari, Ellen; Power, Marilyn; Figart, Deborah - In: Feminist Economics 8 (2002) 2, pp. 37-61
We examine two key US labor market policies: state-level minimum wages for women from 1912-23 and the federal minimum wage established under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Each of these regulations implicitly defined which groups were and were not expected to conform to the hegemonic male...