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Five Decades of Remarkable but Slowing Change in U.S. Women's Economic and Social Status and Political Participation

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: 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"-terms pointing to the remarkable transformation in women's social and economic roles since the 1960s. Many metrics document these changes.

Source: RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2016.2.4.01

Authors: Martha J. Bailey, Thomas A. DiPrete

Institutions: University of Michigan, Columbia University

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development