Women Working Longer: Labor Market Implications of Providing Family Care

Women have been working longer for a long time in US history. Their labor
market participation increased decade after decade during the twentieth
century, as more women were drawn into the labor force. But that is an old
story. The new story is that a large portion of women are working a lot longer into their sixties and even their seventies. Their increased participation
at older ages started in the late 1980s before the turnaround in older men’s
labor force participation and before the economic downturns of the first
decade of the twenty- first century.