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Science 25 April 1986:
Vol. 232. no. 4749, pp. 459 - 464
DOI: 10.1126/science.232.4749.459
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Sex Differences in Economic Well-Being

VICTOR R. FUCHS 1

1 Professor of economics, Stanford University, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford, CA 94305.

Despite large structural changes in the economy and major antidiscrimination legislation, the economic well-being of women in comparison with that of men did not improve between 1959 and 1983. The women to men ratio of money income almost doubled, but women had less leisure while men had more, an increase in the proportion of adults not married made more women dependent on their own income, and women's share of financial responsibility for children rose. The net result for women's access to goods, services, and leisure in comparison with that of men ranged from a decrease of 15 percent to an increase of 4 percent, depending on assumptions about income sharing within households.


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