@inbook {NBERc13800, title = {Women Working Longer: Labor Market Implications of Providing Family Care}, booktitle = {Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages}, year = {2017}, pages = {157-181}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, organization = {University of Chicago Press}, abstract = {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{\textquoteright}s labor force participation and before the economic downturns of the first decade of the twenty- first century.}, keywords = {family and work, Labor force participation, women}, url = {http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13800}, author = {Sean Fahle and Kathleen McGarry} }