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Show Women as Workers 26 husbands were unemployed (an unemployment rate of 3.4 percent), force. and about 5 million were not in the labor 20. Female-Head Families Fifty percent of the women March 1964 were in the labor husbands in percent of who had families but no force 11). In 47 (table another women heads were workers, the 2.4 million families whose force. However, 1.3 was in the labor member of the family group also for their breadwinners were the sole million female family heads Their unemployment rate families and 151,000 were unemployed. for husbands in that than of 6.2 percent was considerably higher female family million 2.5 The remaining husband-wife families. force. heads were not in the labor status of female family heads by age force labor the of An analysis reveals that in 1964 the labor-force participation rate was highest for These women ac those 45 to 54 years old (71 percent) (table 1'2). in the labor heads counted for only 29 percent of all female family the in heads population. force and 20 percent of all female family 64 percent In the next younger age group (35 to 44 years old), nearly (55 to 64 the next higher age group of the women were workers; in years old), 53 percent. years old) Although the youngest age group (14 female family and represented only 5 percent of all the smallest ically labor the force, about 40 per heads in the population and 4 percent in to 24 was numer 65 years in the labor force. At the other extreme female of family of age and over represented the second largest group were in the labor force. heads in the population, but only 12 percent the most economically were women Significantly, families headed by lived in poverty, families over two-fifths of such cent women were deprived-in 1964 were also the most per with a family income of less than $3,000. They is estimated that 76 percent of these families who sistently poor-it were poor in 1962 were also poor in 1963.6 Working Wives women to go into paid work is The growing tendency fo: married of working couples in the reflected in the number and proportion Nation. Of the 14.5 million wives (husband present) in the labor force in about 13.5 million had husbands who were also in the labor March force. 1964, These working couples represented 32 percent e Economic Report of the President. January 1'965. of all couples in |
