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Title: Working Mothers Then and Now: A Cross-Cohort Analysis of the Effects of Maternity Leave on Women's Pay
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1. Waldfogel, Jane
Working Mothers Then and Now: A Cross-Cohort Analysis of the Effects of Maternity Leave on Women's Pay
In: Gender and Family in the Workplace. F.D. Blau and R.G. Ehrenberg, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997: 92-126
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Maternal Employment; Wages, Women

An examination of the disadvantages that women -- particularly young mothers -- face in today's workplace sets the stage for the debate...and Jane Waldfogel demonstrates that having children results in substantially lower wages for women. Adapted from publication publicity notice, copyright Russell Sage Foundation.
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Waldfogel, Jane. "Working Mothers Then and Now: A Cross-Cohort Analysis of the Effects of Maternity Leave on Women's Pay" In: Gender and Family in the Workplace. F.D. Blau and R.G. Ehrenberg, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997: 92-126