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Show Women in the Labor Force 23 OF WOMEN, STATUS, SELECTED YEARS, 1940-641 Table 9.-LABOR-FoRCE PARTICIPATION RATES BY MARITAL (Women 14 years of age and over) Marital status 1964 Total _ Single _ Married _ IIusband present _ IIusband absent _ Widowed _ Divorced I _ 1950 1940 36.5 34.8 31. 4 27.4 40.9 44.1 50.5 48.1 35.3 31. 7 24.8 16.7 34.4 30.5 23.8 14.7 49.1 51. 8 27.6 70.7 29.8} 71. 6 47.4 53.4 236.0 232.0 Data are for March of each year. 2 Not reported separately in 1950 and 1940. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: 26. 1960 Special Labor Force Report Nos. 50 and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census: Current Population Reports, P-50, Nos. 29 and 22. Of the 8.5 million widowed women in the population in 1964, 28 percent were in the labor force; of the 2.1 million divorced women, 71 percent. The labor force participation of these two groups combined had increased slightly since 1940. However, a much smaller percent age of widows than of divorcees were workers, mainly because widows represent an older age group. 15. Labor Force Participation of Women by Age and Marital Status When labor-force participation rates -of single and married women (husband present) are analyzed according to age, it is evident. that the probability of a woman's working is influenced more by marital status than by age. Differences in participation are particularly noticeable among women 25 to 29 years old, the age group in which married women are most-likely to have young children who need their care (table 10). In this age group 88 percent of single women, but only 29 percent of married women living with their husbands, worked In the age group 30 to 34 years, the difference was still pro nounced-86 percent of single women, but only 32 percent of married in 1964. women (husband present) were in the labor force. , The peak in labor force participation of single women (88 percent) in the age group 25 to 29 years; the peak of married women with husband present (45 percent) was in the age group 45 to 54 years. was For each age gr-oup starting with 20 to 24 years, the highest rate of participation in the labor force was among single women and the lowest rate was among married women living with their husbands. |
