This article examines the impact on women's employment of the changing demographic
structure of the family. Using log linear techniques and data from the 1960 and 1970
censuses, our findings modify earlier research and have implications for the future. Key
findings include a decline in the effect of marital status on women's employment; no
decline in the effect of child status; a more complicated relationship between race and
employment status than previously realized; and clear evidence that rates are increasing
not only because of changes in family structure, but because of changes in the employment
patterns of successive cohorts of women.
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