Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311997 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17558
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or stalling of gains thereafter, with a plateauing of female labor force participation trends and a slowing of women's occupational and wage convergence with men. She considers the likelihood of a resumption of progress in narrowing gender gaps in these areas, concluding it is unlikely without policy intervention. She then considers some new policy initiatives addressing work-family issues and labor market discrimination that may hold potential for increasing female labor force participation and narrowing gender inequities in the labor market.
Subjects: 
gender wage gap
gender
female labor force participation
occupational segregation
labor market discrimination
labor market policy
JEL: 
J16
J18
J21
J24
J31
J48
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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