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Social changes lead married women into labor force

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  • Kristie M. Engemann
  • Michael T. Owyang

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The ranks of women in the workforce jumped by more than 24 percentage points between 1955 and 1999. Credit labor-saving devices at home (such as the dishwasher), the birth-control pill and the preference by some men to marry a woman who works outside the home.

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  • Kristie M. Engemann & Michael T. Owyang, 2006. "Social changes lead married women into labor force," The Regional Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Apr, pages 10-11.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlre:y:2006:i:apr:p:10-11
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    1. Hiroyuki Kikuchi & Yuko Odagiri & Yumiko Ohya & Yutaka Nakanishi & Teruichi Shimomitsu & Töres Theorell & Shigeru Inoue, 2020. "Association of overtime work hours with various stress responses in 59,021 Japanese workers: Retrospective cross-sectional study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(3), pages 1-22, March.

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