during 1981 it had a more less affect than in 1971. According to statistics just over one quarter of married women with young children were.
working, but this later changed and grew by 76 percent over a 10-year period of time. The rate also showed an increase of 47 percent for.
widowed, divorced, and separated women with children. However single women with young children showed a slight decrease. However the.
female participation rate is not so much related to family status as today as it was many years ago. During the period of 1971 through 1981 the.
involvement of married women went through a major change. Fewer women saw marriage as a reason to interrupt their participation in the job.
force, and couple tended to postpone having children or not having any at all. While women with young children tended to participate less in the.
labor market and quit their jobs more frequently than men. Females did the exact opposite of what men did when they had children while working,.
and in some cases were actually more stable than men without children. This showed that the couple's attitude towards having children influenced a.
decrease in the female labor force participation rate. In 1981 most women spent an average of 1,247 hours a year working, compared with 1,431.
hours in 1971 which had dropped about 15 percent. Even men saw their average hours decrease by 13 percent. Not only more women were.
working, more were working part-time for only part of the year which meant more women on the unemployment rolls. In the 1960's the.
unemployment rate for females was 3 percent and ten years later increased to 7 percent. Since June 1982 the unemployment rate for men was.
11-13 percent and the women's just above that rate which could also exceed that of the men near the end of the century. Only about 11 percent of.
women had part-time jobs because they couldn't find full-time employment or because they wished to spend more time to their education or their.
