Bloomberg Businessweek, July 16, 2013, Tuesday

Bloomberg Businessweek

July 16, 2013, Tuesday

Bloomberg Businessweek (full article)

Why Joint Filing Is a Dinosaur

Take the women’s labor force participation rate. It fell sharply during the last recession, but it had stagnated well before the downturn. For example, in 1990 the U.S. women’s labor force participation rate was 74 percent, sixth-best in the world. Two decades later the figure had merely climbed to 75 percent and the U.S. rate ranked 22nd in the world, according to economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn of the ILR School at Cornell University.