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Long Work Hours, Part-Time Work, and Trends in the Gender Gap in Pay, the Motherhood Wage Penalty, and the Fatherhood Wage Premium

Kim A. Weeden, Youngjoo Cha, Mauricio Bucca
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2016, 2 (4) 71-102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.03
Kim A. Weeden
aJan Rock Zubrow '77 Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University
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bAssociate professor of sociology at Indiana University
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cDoctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University
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