Five Decades of Remarkable but Slowing Change in U.S. Women's Economic and Social Status and Political Participation

Martha J. Bailey; Thomas A. DiPrete

doi:10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.01

Article Information

vol. 2 no. 4 1-32

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.01

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online August 1, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. We are grateful to two anonymous referees and Lawrence Kahn for their comments. We also thank Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn for generously sharing their data relating to the gender gap in wages. Direct correspondence to: Martha J. Bailey at baileymj@umich.edu, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 611 Tappan St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109; and Thomas A. DiPrete at tad61@columbia.edu, Columbia University, 601B Knox Hall, MC 9649, 606 W. 122nd St., New York, NY 10027. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.