The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only wo

The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during th

Women and minorities have entered higher paying occupations, but their overall earnings still lag behind those of white men. Why? Looking nationwide at workers

Why in 2015 are there still large gender differences in economic success? This volume consists of a set of state of the art research articles to answer this que