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Article: Married mothers' work patterns: the job-family compromise.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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Today's married mothers are twice as likely to work full time all year than their predecessors of 20 years ago
Married mothers form a significant segment of the female work force. Likewise, the families of these working mothers account for a sizable share of all families, and contain almost half of the Nation's children.(1) Consequently, married mothers, market work (or work for pay or profit) plays a role in the lives of sizable numbers of families and children.
Over the past two decades, the proportions of mothers (living with their husbands) who were in the labor force rose dramatically. By 1992, two-thirds of all married mothers were working or ...