traditional gender norms female labor force Related: Women losing on workforce participation

Female employment rates…[are] responsible for 77 percent of the aging-adjusted difference in employment performance between the United States and other advanced economies…adjusted for aging, women had almost zero net impact on employment rates in the United States, but they raised employment rates by 2.0 percentage points in other advanced economies.


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