The last fifty years of women's social and economic progress have been lauded as the
“grand gender convergence,” the “second demographic transition,” and the “rise of women” …

It's Women's History Month in the United States. What better time to discuss a key economic
dynamic that both reflects and contributes to women's changing role in American society …

The expansion of women's political representation ranks among the most significant trends
in American politics of the last 100 years. In this paper, we develop two longitudinal theories …

This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided American
women a constitutional guarantee to the franchise. We assemble data from a variety of …

As we reflect on where we have been and where we are headed at the beginning of a new
century, the massive changes that have occurred in women's roles in the United States and …

While women's labor force participation has increased substantially in the US over the
second half of the 20th century, this growth has stagnated and reversed since 2000, with …

Over the past 4 decades, women have made notable changes in their labor force activities.
Labor force participation is significantly higher among women today than it was in the 1970s …

Despite the large amount of attention by politics and gender scholars to analyzing gender
parity in political representation and the impact of the increasing participation of women in …

Feminists opened up thousands of doors in the 1960s and 1970s, but decades later, are US
women where they thought they'd be? The answer, it turns out, is a resounding no. Surely …

In this article, the author describes sweeping changes in the gender system and offers
explanations for why change has been uneven. Because the devaluation of activities done …