Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women.

Abstract

Chapter 1: Women's experience in the American economy Chapter 2: The evolution of the female labor force: The measure of market work Labor force participation of married women since 1890 Cohorts of white married women Cohorts versus cross sections Implications of cohort change Cohorts of nonwhite married women Life-cycle labor force participation and work experience Direct measures of life-cycle work Work experience, 1930-1950 Economic development and the life cycle of work Corrections to the 1890 data Participation rates before 1890, married and adult women Participation rates before 1890, single women Single women in the labor force, 1890 to 1930 Summary: The work of women since 1790