In this review we examine two classes of interventions designed to achieve workplace
gender equality:(a) those designed to boost motivations and ambition, such as those that …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight an emerging and evolving area within
women's careers literature–women's opting-out and opting-in experiences. Highlights from …

After becoming consistently more egalitarian for more than two decades, gender role
attitudes in the General Social Survey have changed little since the mid-1990s. This plateau …

Delayed marriage and childbearing, more births outside marriage, the increase in women's
labor force participation, and the aging of the population have altered family life and created …

Gender is one of the most important topics in the field ofsociology, and as a system of social
practices it inspires amultitude of theoretical approaches. The Sociology of Genderoffers an …

In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family
life--the rise of single, two-paycheck, and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for …

The author investigates how high-speed home Internet use has affected labor supply. Using
an instrumental variables strategy that exploits cross-state variation in supply-side …

Increases in the association between spouses' earnings have the potential to increase
inequality as marriages increasingly consist of two high-earning or two low-earning partners …

Purpose–This study aims to explore the reasons why women are leaving the workplace. Are
they opting out of the workforce to stay at home with their children as current media reports …