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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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2016, 2 (4) 1-32; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.01
Martha J. Bailey
aAssociate professor of economics and research associate professor at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She is also faculty research affiliate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
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Thomas A. DiPrete
bGiddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and member of the faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center. He is also co-director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia and co-director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality at Columbia
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