Trends in the Well-Being of American Women, 1970-1995

Francine Blau

Journal of Economic Literature, 1998, vol. 36, issue 1, 112-165

Abstract: This paper examines the trends in the well-being of American women over the last 25 years, a time of significant changes in the relative economic status of women and in the labor market as a whole. Substantial evidence is obtained of rising gender equality in labor market outcomes and in the allocation of housework within married couple families. However, parallel to the recent evidence of the declining labor market position of lower skilled men, there has been a similar deterioration in the economic status of less educated women, especially high school dropouts, across a wide variety of dimensions.

Date: 1998
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (125)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.e-jel.org/archive/mar1998/Blau.pdf (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to AEA members.

Related works:
Working Paper: Trends in the Well-Being of American Women, 1970-1995 (1997)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aea:jeclit:v:36:y:1998:i:1:p:112-165

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/subscriptions

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Economic Literature is currently edited by Steven Durlauf

More articles in Journal of Economic Literature from American Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael P. Albert ().