Gender in the Workplace

That women have entered the work force in large numbers is a well-known economic development, but many questions remain about the effects of this dramatic shift. Have women been truly integrated into the labor market? How have they fared in the competition for fair wages and professional jobs? What has happened to the American family and its standard of living?

Claire Brown analyzes the relationship between consumption norms, women's work roles, and economic growth as all three changed over a sixty-year period. Heidi I. Hartmann uses data about a pay and promotions in a large insurance company to illustrate occupational segregation by sex in an internal labor market.