Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 18, Chart 1
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, unpublished data.
The number and percentage of married, working women with children under 18 rose significantly between 1975 and 1993. The proportion of married, working mothers in two-parent families with children rose from 41 percent in 1975 to 65 percent in 1993. This increase in women working outside the home caused a significant transformation of married- couple families with children. The predominant pattern in 1993 was for both parents to work outside the home, in contrast with 1975 when the most common pattern was for fathers only to be employed. Women in female-headed households were employed at about the same rate as women in married-couple families.
