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Show Women as Workers 30 Table H.-PERCENT DISTRIBUTION IN THE LABOR FORCE, BY (HUSBAND PRESENT) 1963, MARCH 1964 MARRIED WOMEN OF INCOME HUSBAND OF IN (Women 14 years of age and over) Wives in the labor force Income of husband 14,461,000 uInber Percent 100.0 _ Under $1,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5. 9 - $1,000 to $1,999 $2,000 to $2,999 $3,000 to $4,999 $5,000 to $6,999______________________________________________ -----.$7,000 to $9,999 $10,000 and -- - -- - ------ -- ----- --- - - - - -- - --- - - -- - - - - -- -- --- -- - - -- --- --- - - -- - - -- --- ---- - - -- - - - - -- - --- -- - - ----- -- - -- - - - - - ------- ------ -- - - - - -- over_____________________________________________ Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: 22. Contribution of Wives to 7.8 9. 0 24. 2 28.5 16. 5 8.1 Special Labor Force Report No. 50. family Income A special study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics throws light on the contribution made to family income by married women who worked some time during 1963.7 These statistics include women who worked full time the year round and also those who worked part time and part of the year. show that wives' earnings generally constituted a smaller They proportion of family income in low-income families than in higher income families (table 15). For example, in almost three-fifths of the families with income below $2,000, but in only about one-fifth of the families with income between $10,000 and $15,000, the wives' earn ings accounted for less than 10 percent of family income. In families with incomes below $2,000, about half of the working wives contributed less than 5 percent to family income. In the income class $2,000 to $3,000, more than one-third of the wives who worked contributed less than 5 percent. In more than one-fourth of the families in this income class, the wives' earnings accounted for 10 to 30 percent of family income. In higher income brackets wives generally contributed a greater share to family income. Wives' earnings accounted for 30 percent or more of the income in almost half of the families with incomes between $10,000 and $15,000. They accounted for 20 percent or more in over half of the families with incomes of $15,000 or more. 7 Special Labor Force Report Labor. No. 50. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of |
