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Title: The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2002

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Abstract: In the past two decades gender pay differences have narrowed considerably and a declining significance of gender has pervaded the labor market in numerous ways. This paper contends that in thefirst several decades of the twentieth century there was a rising significance of gender. The emergence of gender distinctions accompanied several important changes in the economy including the rise ofwhite-collar work for women and increases in women's educational attainment. Firms adopted policies not to hire women in particular occupations and to exclude men from other occupations. A model ofdiscrimination is developed in which men oppose the hiring of women into certain positions. The assumptions of the model break down when women acquire known and verifiable credentials. The shift from the rising to the declining significance of gender may have involved such a change.

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Authors: Goldin, Claudia

Conference Name: Cambridge University, Marshall Lecture

Publisher Location: Cambridge, UK

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Gender, Methodology and Data Collection

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