More Women in the Workplace -- An Under-tapped Recipe for Success

When the economy slipped into a deep recession during late 2007, the U.S. labor market had sustained comparable unemployment rates for men and women throughout the post-war era; in fact, the gender unemployment gap never exceeded 1 percent during this period.

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