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Show Women in the Labor Force 33 benefits, paid sick leave and vacations, profit-sharing plans, and dis count privileges, as well as social security benefits and retirement income above those the nonworking wife can count on. Often the intangible benefits are equally or more important to the working wife. These include the opportunity to widen her horizons and the benefit of being able to develop new skills and discover new aptitudes. Many working wives feel that they become more effective members of their own families and contribute more to their community and to society in general by combining paid employment with homemaking. 24. Occupations of Husbands and Wives A comparison of the occupations held by husbands and wives in March 1964 indicated that less than one-fourth of working couples pursued similar lines of work. The highest correlation between the husband's and the wife's jobs existed among clerical workers (44.1 percent) ; however, it was appar ent that within this major occupational group many husbands and wives did not do the same work (table 16). Over two-fifths (42.3 percent) of the wives of professional and technical workers were in the same major occupational group as their husbands. Correlation between farm jobs was also relatively high (41.0 percent)-not sur prising since most farm wives have few job opportunities other than farmwork. Two-fifths of the wives of service workers had service jobs, and approximately three-tenths of the wives who were operatives had husbands in these occupations; about one-seventh of the wives in man agerial and almost one-sixth of those in sales work had husbands in the same occupations. |
