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Title: Gender Gaps in the Labor Market Widen Every Summer

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2023

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ISSN: 2380-7172

DOI: 10.17016/2380-7172.3274

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Abstract: Gender gaps in labor market activity are pervasive, longstanding, and a regular subject of policy debates. Relative to men, women tend to work fewer hours per week, more conventional hours, and fewer years over the course of their lives.2 These differences in the intensity and timing of work contribute to gender disparities in promotions and pay.3 But despite decades of research on this topic, little attention has been paid to the timing of work throughout the year. To motivate our inquiry, Figure 1 plots the monthly labor force participation rates of prime-age US women and men using non–seasonally adjusted data, with June, July, and August shaded gray. Summer after summer, women's labor force participation drops sharply while men's participation does not.

Url: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/gender-gaps-in-the-labor-market-widen-every-summer-20230324.html

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Authors: Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie

Publisher: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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