SOC 3371 Lecture 14: Work and Families
12 Nov 2020
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In mid-twentieth century, a few wives worked outside the home. Rates of employed women rose sharply through the 1990s, leveled off around 2000, and have declined slightly since then. In 2016: 73 percent of all married women with school-aged children were in the labor force, 63 percent of married women with pre-school-aged children were in the labor force. Figure 8. 1: labor force participation rates of married women with children under age 18, by. Service sector: workers who provide personal services: education, health care, communication, restaurant meals, legal representation, entertainment, and so forth. Population shifted from farms to cities, and each generation had fewer children: parents preferred having fewer children and investing more resources in each of those children. Instrumental in shift from companionship marriage to independent marriage. Change has been less pronounced for women from poor or minority backgrounds. Dual-earner married couples are a rule rather than an exception. Wives" earnings are becoming an essential component of family income.
