Female Discrimination In The Labor Force
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In the past decades there has been a dramatic increase in the number of
women participating in the labor force. This expansion has unfortunately shown
how women are still being treated as inferior citizens when comparing their
wages and the jobs they are hired for to that of men. Many women in s ....
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.... 60 million. This comprised 46 percent of the civilian work
force (10).
A reason for the rise in participation by women may be in the way women
saw marriage and children. Fewer women saw marriage as a settling down. Women
who had children began to return to their jobs. The number of working women
that were either married or had children or both increased dramatically. In
1965, women with children under 18 years of age numbered 35.0 percent of the
labor force. This number increased to 47. ....
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