Technological advances, the growth of the service sector and more Educational attainment They increased the demand for female labor in the 20th century, but social stigma, legislation, and institutional barriers other than marriage limited their influence.
‘For most of the 20th century, women overestimated how much they would work: expectations and outcomes did not begin to change. converge until the 1970s. As a result, women who were young during that period invested more in their education,” notes the Royal Academy of Sciences.
That change was caused by the birth control pill, which delayed aging wedding and of childbirth and Allowed women “to plan their future better and make their expectations clearer, thus providing them with new incentives,” as Goldin and Lawrence Katz showed in a study.
In another later work from 2010, signed by Goudin, katz And Marianne Bertrand, it was shown that the difference in income between the sexes was initially small, but that it immediately grew with the birth of the first child and that the gap was not corrected later.
Source: El heraldo

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