Contents
Five Decades of Remarkable but Slowing Change in U.S. Women’s Economic and Social Status and Political Participation / Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. DiPrete
Part I. Working Hours, Opting Out, and the Gender Wage Gap
The Opt-Out Continuation: Education, Work, and Motherhood from 1984 to 2012 / Tanya Byker
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, and Mauricio Bucca
Part II. Motherhood, Work, and the Family Pay Gap
The Family Gap in Pay: New Evidence for 1967 to 2013 / Ipshita Pal and Jane Waldfogel
Motherhood and the Wages of Women in Professional Occupations / Claudia Buchmann and Anne McDaniel
Part III. Women’s Work in Nontraditionally Female Occupations and STEM Fields
Gender Differences in the Early Career Outcomes of College Graduates: The Influence of Sex-Type of Degree Field Across Four Cohorts / Kimberlee A. Shauman
Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in STEM: Does Field Sex Composition Matter? / Katherine Michelmore and Sharon Sassler
Part IV. Marriage, Divorce, and Women’s Earnings
Trends in Relative Earnings and Marital Dissolution: Are Wives Who Outearn Their Husbands Still More Likely to Divorce? / Christine R. Schwartz and Pilar Gonalons-Pons
Selection and Specialization in the Evolution of Marriage Earnings Gaps / Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue
Part V. Education, Work, and Political Participation
Advances and Ambivalence: The Consequences of Women’s Educational and Workforce Changes for Women’s Political Participation in the United States, 1952 to 2012 / Ashley Jardina and Nancy Burns