abstract: 'Public policy initiatives in the 1950s and 1960s, including Affirmative

  Action and Equal Employment Opportunity low, helped mitigate explicit

  discrimination in pay, and the expansion of higher education and

  training programs have advanced the employment fortunes of many American

  women. By the early 1980s, some scholars proclaimed near equity in pay

  between black and white women, particularly among young and highly

  skilled workers. More recent policy initiatives and labor market

  conditions have been arguably less progressive for black women''s

  employment and earnings: through the 1980s, 1990s, and the first half of

  the 2000s, the wage gap between black and white women widened

  considerably. Using data from the Current Population Survey Merged

  Outgoing Rotation Group (CPS-MORG), this article documents the racial

  wage gap among women in the United States from 1979 to 2005. We

  investigate how demographic and labor market conditions influence

  employment and wage inequality among black and white women over the

  period. Although shifts in labor supply influence the magnitude of the

  black-white wage gap among women, structural disadvantages faced by

  black women help explain the growth in the racial wage gap.'
affiliation: 'Pettit, B (Corresponding Author), Univ Washington, Dept Sociol, Savery
  Hall,Box 353340, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.

  Pettit, Becky; Ewert, Stephanie, Univ Washington, Dept Sociol, Seattle, WA 98195
  USA.'
author: Pettit, Becky and Ewert, Stephanie
author-email: bpettit@u.washington.edu
author_list:
- family: Pettit
  given: Becky
- family: Ewert
  given: Stephanie
da: '2023-09-28'
eissn: 1533-7790
files: []
issn: 0070-3370
journal: DEMOGRAPHY
keywords-plus: 'UNITED-STATES; LABOR-MARKET; OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION; HEADING

  HOUSEHOLDS; WHITE EARNINGS; RACE; INEQUALITY; GENDER; RATES;

  DISCRIMINATION'
language: English
month: AUG
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '57'
pages: 469-492
papis_id: 704c8f841c46ea0439e64907fb814199
ref: Pettit2009employmentgains
times-cited: '31'
title: 'EMPLOYMENT GAINS AND WAGE DECLINES: THE EROSION OF BLACK WOMEN''S RELATIVE
  WAGES SINCE 1980'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000269925600003
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '19'
volume: '46'
web-of-science-categories: Demography
year: '2009'