In 1985, Gary Becker predicted employment and childcare sex gaps may ‘disappear or be greatly attenuated in the near … future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last …

The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men's employment … Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), a repeated cross-sectional survey that covers the period 1977-1998, we …

by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly …", i.e. convenient for combining career and household activities, and increase female labor participation. The policy … could be argued that the policy did, indirectly, have a positive impact on gender equality in the labor market and, possibly …