The past 75 years have seen the enactment of laws protecting women and children, setting workplace standards, and establishing social insurance programs. (Author)

Over the past quarter of a century, the labor force participation rate of women 25 to 54 climbed from 37 percent to 54 percent. (Author)

The proportion of women in the labor force continued to grow during 1970-1978; more women headed families and worked despite the presence of children, according to the summary preceding the twenty-three tables which constitute the bulk of this report. Other findings summarized from the statistics are as follows. By 1978, a record 47.7 percent of…

This report describes the socioeconomic conditions of women who are heads of families noting that the accelerated growth of families headed by women in recent years, especially since 1970, has been of concern in part because one out of every three, as compared to one of every eighteen of the families headed by men, is living at or below what is…