1. The Declining Proportion Of Children In US : Working Mothers And Other Economic Factors
... proportion of children in the population of the US to 26% in 2001 from 36% during the "Baby Boom" era of 1960s [Forum on children and family statistics, 2000: http://www.childstats.gov/ac2002/pdf/pop.pdf] The period between 1970 and late 1990s witnessed great strides in the field of participation of women in the labor force. The various civil ... number of employed workers jumped from 11 million in 1970 to 20.5 million in 1994 and which currently employs greater than 80% of the women [Bureau of Labor, 2001: http://www.bls.gov/opub/rtaw/pdf/rtaw2001.pdf] demanded the exploitation of inte...
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