One of the sharpest criticisms of welfare state research is insufficient attention to factors relating to gender relations and inequalities. Recent scholarship has begun to address welfare state effects on gender-related outcomes, but the evaluation of theories of welfare development with respect to gender factors is somewhat less developed,…

Unlike previous research on women's occupational mobility, considers (1) housework to be a possible occupational outcome, and (2) the occupations of both parents as influences on daughters' occupations. Finds that women whose mothers worked are more likely to join the labor force and that their occupations are likely to resemble their mothers'.…

Analyzes data since 1960 from the Public Use Microdata Samples of the decennial censuses and a pooled extract from the Current Population Surveys. Found widening race and ethnic difference in employment over time and unequal employment returns to education among women of color, particularly Puerto Ricans. Socioeconomic structural changes and…