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This paper extends the Chapman-Mulvey analysis to consider the impact of family role specialization in addition to discrimination on observed male-female earnings differentials. The Chapman and Mulvey approach involves comparing separate earnings functions for men and women. However, although these functions contain a marital status variable, decisions about parental and domestic responsibilities within households affect both the pattern of labour force participation and the acquisition of marketable human capital of household members. This suggests that separate earnings functions should be estimated for groups of workers defined not only in terms of sex but also according to marital status. The analysis presented in this paper thus provides some estimate of the impact of family specialization on the earnings of women in addition to the consequences of labour market discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]