Women in the first couple of decades of the 20th century were doing much better relative to men. As women's ages marriage began coming down and they started having children at earlier ages, particularly the baby boom. But as the age of marriage came down as they had more children, they declined. And so as women now begin to arise by about 1972 and the professional fields they got back to where they had been in 1932.
Thomas Sowell of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his new book, Economic Facts and Fallacies. He discusses the misleading nature of measured income inequality, CEO pay, why nations grow or stay poor, the role of intellectuals and experts in designing public policy, and immigration.