In recent years the field of labor economics has witnessed growth of interest in causes and consequences of female labor force participation. Principal areas of research include determinants of female wages and labor supply. Female wages tend to be lower than those of males, owing in part to: (1) lower levels of female schooling and experience, (2) intermittent life cycle patterns of labor supply and human capital accumulation, (3) sorting of females into occupations that are conducive to intermittent behavior, and (4) as several researchers suggest, gender discrimination. Consequently, women are more likely than men to experience wages that fall short of the legal minimum. This study examines the consequences of minimum wages on female employment prospects. Of special interest is the likelihood of successful job search for women whose wages in the absence of legislation would be below the minimum. This study, based on a sample of microdata from the Public Use Sample of the 1980 Census, proposes a simple framework in which this issue can be addressed in the context of a conventional model of labor supply. -from Authors