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Peer reviewedKlein, Bruce W.; Rones, Philip L. – Monthly Labor Review, 1989
More than six million persons who spent at least half of 1987 in the labor force were poor; among families with workers, those headed by unmarried women with children have the highest poverty rates. (Author)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Family Income, Labor Force
Peer reviewedJohnson, Beverly L.; Waldman, Elizabeth – Monthly Labor Review, 1983
Most women who maintain families have a strong commitment to the labor force but have lower average educational attainment and earnings, bringing them closer to poverty with each additional child. (JOW)
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Potential
Download full textMcEaddy, Beverly Johnson – Monthly Labor Review, 1976
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…
Descriptors: Age, Economic Research, Employed Women, Employment
