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Understanding the gender gap : an economic history of American women / Claudia Goldin.

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Main Author: Goldin, Claudia Dale
Other title:Economic history of American women.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Series:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Subjects:
Women > Employment > United States > History.
Sex discrimination in employment > United States > History.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Women > Employment.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Women's experience in the American economy
  • The evolution of the female labor force
  • The gender gap in earnings and occupations
  • The emergence of "wage discrimination"
  • The changing economic role of married women
  • Why did change take so long?
  • The political economy of gender
  • Economic progress and gender equality.

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