Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Margaret Walsh -- 1 New Entry Points from USA Women's Labour History -- Sheila Rowbotham 9 -- 2 Gendering Work in Eighteenth-century Towns -- Deborah Simonton 29 -- 3 Age and Gender at the Workplace: The Historical Experiences of Young People in...

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...