Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

engineering employment in 1939 to 35.2% by 1943. Women were officially classified into those doing men's work and those doing … women's work. Using a unique data set provided by the Engineering Employers Federation, this paper examines female work and … previously undertaken. It features the pay and hours of piece- and time-rated women, female-male wage ratios, and an assessment …