The author discusses women's labor market participation during this century, focusing on the current figure with 70 percent of women age 25 to 54 as labor force participants. She projects that increases will continue, although at a slower pace, between 1986 and 2000. (CH)

Describes labor market developments in 1985 for major age-sex, race-ethnic, industrial, and occupational groups. It also examines the performance of key employment and unemployment indicators in cyclical terms and evaluates selected developments from a secular perspective. Data discussed in this article come from two sources: household interviews…