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The economic well-being of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States depends critically on women's employment and earnings. Yet women's economic roles are ignored in recent literature about the effects of economic restructuring on well-being: the spatial mismatch/urban underclass debates. Gender differences in labor market segmentation are central to the spatial mismatch debate, both in their effects on wages, occupation, and transportation access and their links to place-based variation in commuting and spatial access to employment. Using 1980 PUMS data for northern New Jersey, we examine the spatial mismatch between jobs and residences for employed black and Hispanic women and the links between labor market segmentation and spatial mismatch. Minority women have poorer spatial access to jobs than white women, as indicated by their longer commuting times and less-localized labor …