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Title: The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2006
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Abstract: Womens increased involvement in the economy was the most significant change in labor markets during the past century. Their modern economic role emerged in the United States in four distinct phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary. The revolution was a quiet one, not the big-bang type. The evolutionary phases led, slowly, tothe revolutionary phase. First, I will discuss the three evolutionary phases and how they led to the revolutionary phase. I will then describe the changes that occurred during the revolutionary phase and end with whether the revolution, as some have claimed, is stalled or being reversed...
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Authors: Goldin, Claudia
Periodical (Full): The American Economic Review
Issue: 2
Volume: 96
Pages: 1-21
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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