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We use competition and resource mobilization perspectives to explain the rise of the contemporary U.S. women's movement. Our competition framework proposes that economic and sociodemographic changes since World War II increased competition between women and men in the marketplace. This increased competition provided motivation for the women's movement. We find support for this framework with national quantitative time-series data.
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Rosenfeld, R.A., Ward, K.B. The contemporary U.S. women's movement: An empirical example of competition theory. Sociol Forum 6, 471–500 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01114473
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