Please join us in welcoming Professor Christine Percheski for a discussion titled "Family Structure, Employment, and Income Inequality among American Women." Income inequality in the United States has increased rapidly since the early 1970s, the same period during which women’s employment rates rose substantially and family structures diversified. Using Current Population Survey data, Percheski describes how inequality in women’s total family income and its constituent income components has changed over time for American women. She finds that the associations between women's family structure and their total family income has remained fairly constant. However, associations between family structure and some components of income —such as women’s own earnings—have changed.
Lunch will be from 12-12:30 and the talk will be from 12:30-1:45pm.
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Using demographic and other quantitative methods, Christine Percheski studies how recent and ongoing changes in family life are related to changing patterns of social inequality in the United States.
Percheski's previous work has considered questions such as whether becoming a father affects employment differently for married and unmarried men, how the employment patterns of new mothers vary by whether they...
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