494Big Cities & Working WomenService jobs in large cities constituted the most important source of employment for women in the 19th and 20th century.Berger, T, M Karadja and E Prawitz (2024), ‘DP18927 Cities and the Rise of Working Women‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 18927. CEPR Press, Paris & London.https://cepr.org/publications/dp18927Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Sandra Tzvetkova and Max Roser (2018) - “Women's Employment” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/female-labor-supply' [Online Resource]Sources:https://cepr.org/publications/dp18927https://ourworldindata.org/female-labor-supplyPicture source: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/women-in-the-workplace-20th-century/10/Women wear goggles as they work in the welding department of Lincoln Motor Co., Detroit, circa 1914-1918.Worldwide, nearly half of women participate in the labor market. According to World Bank data, in 2021, the global female labor force participation rate was 47.1%,
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