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Title: From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2000

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DOI: 10.3386/w7608

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Abstract: In the twenty-first century many of the professional and high ranking managerial workers in the United States and in other OECD countries will be women. This change in womens social and economic status represents a dramatic break with the past, but one that can only be understood by looking to the past. The rise of the career woman would not have been possible without the entry of previous generations of women into the labor market. This entry was determined both by contemporaneous demand factors and by the characteristics, expectations, and social norms regarding work and family of different cohorts of women. History suggests that change in womens labor force experiences may be slow because it must await the entry of new cohorts of women (and also of men)into the labor market.

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Authors: Costa, Dora L.

Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 7608

Institution: NBER

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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