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providing the family with an extra paycheck. A study shows that if a wife works full-time, all year round, she contributes an average of 38 percent to the total family income.
The extent to which women, especially married women, have been entering the job market is brought out in national reports released by the Census Bureau and the Labor Department.
The finding is that more than a third of the wives in the nation, 15,845,000 of them, are in the paid labor force now, as compared with only about one-fifth in 1952.
What induces married women to take jobs? In most cases, money is the answer. With some it is a matter of necessity and, with others, the desire to live on a better scale than they would be able to otherwise.
In many instances, too, the purpose is to save for a child’s education, or to pay off debts or to escape boredom.
Single women have also been entering the labor force in
93.9%