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Article: Labor supply behavior of married women.(Precis)
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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It is well known that women's labor force participation rates--the percent of women working or actively seeking work--increased dramatically in the post-World War II era. In 1950, for example, only 34 percent of women participated in the labor force; by 2000, that figure had nearly doubled to 60 percent. These trends are even more dramatic among married women: twenty-four percent of married women were in the labor force in 1950, compared with 61 percent in 2000. But the increases have slowed considerably in recent years, especially in the last decade. By 1990, for example, the labor force participation rate for both married and unmarried women had reached 58 percent. ...