Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids by Matthias Doepke & Fabrizio Zilibotti

Author:Matthias Doepke & Fabrizio Zilibotti
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: parenting, economics, sociology
ISBN: 9780691184210
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

WOMEN’S RISING LABOR MARKET

PARTICIPATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In the United States, the gender division between labor market and home was at its most pronounced in the decades between World War I and World War II. There were some women in the labor force even during these years, but with few exceptions these were single women, either young women who had not (yet) married or older women who were either widowed or divorced. The convention was that once a woman got married, she would stop working. In many professions, this was not even a choice but a rule, instituted in so-called marriage bars. For example, in most US states, female schoolteachers were required to be single and would lose their job upon marriage. The proper role of a married woman was understood to be the one to look after the household and the children. Marriage bars were widely adopted in the early 1900s and disappeared only in the 1950s.10

Women’s roles in the labor force started to expand substantially during World War II. While men were in the armed forces and fighting in Europe or Asia, millions of women, many of them married, joined the

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