Product Description: The rapid influx of women into the labor market has come to be recognized as one of the most important economic and social developments of the latter half of the 20th century. Women in the Labor Market is an authoritative collection of those papers which have made the greatest contribution to our understanding of this development and its causes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In essays on the role of women in the economy, leading scholars discuss the size of the female labor supply, the career commitment and participation of married women, sex discrimination, and male-female wage differences