https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/abhay-aneja/Abhay AnejaHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/closing-gender-gaps-through-workplace-diversity-the-intergenerational-effects-of-world-war-i/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/closing-gender-gaps-through-workplace-diversity-the-intergenerational-effects-of-world-war-i/<p>This paper asks whether exposure to greater female representation in the workplace can persistently reduce intergenerational gender gaps in labor market outcomes. The authors exploit the sudden, city-by-department variation in female employment within the U.S. federal government triggered by World War I mobilization. Using the Official Registers of the United States — biennial personnel rosters covering the near-universe of federal employees from 1913 to 1921 — linked to full-count decennial censuses (1900–1940), they construct a granular measure of each office&rsquo;s (city × department) change in female share between 1915 and 1919, then trace labor force outcomes for the children of incumbent civil servants in the 1940 Census.</p>