From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college …-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did … to move qualified women into their upper ranks. By the 1990s, corporate support for professional women resulted in an …

This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level … disparities in the opportunities that these women meet with across American urban areas. As opposed to other studies that are … based on pair-wise comparisons between groups (e.g., white women versus white men, white women versus black women, and so on …