S.D. Clark Lecture 2024: Is the Gender Revolution Stalling?

This lecture will consider trends in gender inequality over the last 50 years, examining changing gender gaps in employment, educational attainment, segregation in fields of study, occupational sex segregation, and earnings. While there has been dramatic progress in movement toward gender equality, in recent decades change has slowed, and, on some indicators, stalled entirely. The slowdown on some indicators and stall on others suggests that further movement toward gender equality will only occur if there is substantial institutional and cultural change, involving men’s participation in household and care work, governmental provision of childcare, and employer policies that reduce gender discrimination and help both men and women combine jobs with family care responsibilities.