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Causes of Wage Stagnation. Over the last 35 years (with the exception of the late 1990s), hourly wages of the vast majority have lagged far behind economy-wide productivity. This failure of wages to grow and rising wage inequality is the primary explanation for the rise of family income stagnation and income inequality over the past generation.
In other words, the pay of women relative to men probably stayed constant not in spite of, but because of, the increase in the female labor force. There is another, complementary reason why the gender gap in earnings was stagnating at the same moment that the gender gap in employment was narrowing. As more and more women entered the labor market, many of the new entrants had very little job market experience and few skills.