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Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women

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  • Claudia Goldin
    In Claudia Goldin: Contributions to economic history and labor economics

    In her book Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (1990), Goldin identified actual trends in women’s employment in the United States that had been obscured by misleading official data (or the absence of official data), finding that the beginning of widespread industrialization—the shift from…

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