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Motherhood and the Wages of Women in Professional Occupations

Claudia Buchmann, Anne McDaniel
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2016, 2 (4) 128-150; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.05
Claudia Buchmann
aProfessor of sociology at the Ohio State University
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bAssociate director in the Center for the Study of Student Life at the Ohio State University
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    • Abstract
    • PRIOR RESEARCH
    • GROWING HETEROGENEITY IN THE FAMILY WAGE GAP FOR WOMEN
    • DATA AND METHODS
    • CHANGE IN WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS
    • CHARACTERISTICS OF ELITE, PROFESSIONAL WOMEN
    • THE FAMILY WAGE GAP
    • PARENTHOOD AND THE WAGES OF PROFESSIONAL WOMEN AND MEN
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