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Show Women as Workers 44 Most mothers work full time (35 hours Many part of the year. a week or more) work only dur mothers may take full-time seasonal jobs such as are ing periods of peak business, dur available in retail trade can in the summer, or in laundries during ing the Christmas season, the harvest season. neries and other food processing plants during of the year, and so may Mothers who are teachers may work only part on business. (For other information mothers in the hotel and resort of sections 36 and 37.) women, part-time and part-year work mothers with husbands pres present).-Among Mothers (husband 63 percent worked full time in 1963, ent and school-age children only, time the year round (table 21). but only 36 percent worked full on the job of the mothers who worked full time were Twelve see percent from 1 to 26 weeks only. Table 21.-WORK EXPERIENCE AGES BY 1963 IN OF MOTHERS CHILDREN, MARCH OF (HUSBAND PRESENT), 1964 (Mothers 14 years of age and over) Mothers with children- 6-17 years only Work experience experience Percent with work 2 3-5 years (none under 3) 1 51. 9 38. 1 100.0 100.0 _ Under 3 years 1 35.6 DISTRIBUTION PERCENT Total _ 100.0 === Full time 3 _ 50 to 52 weeks 27 to 49 weeks 1 to 26 weeks Part time - - - - - __ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 _ 27 weeks or more_ 1 to 26 weeks 1 - __ - - - - - - - - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - May also have older children, - - - - _ - 62.5 60.5 64.6 35.7 24.5 13.8 14.7 14.2 19. 1 12. 1 21. 8 31. 7 37.5 39.5 35.4 23.3 20.0 14.3 14.1 19.5 21. 2 __ in addition to one or more under 6. Refers to civilian noninstitutional population. 3 Worked 35 hours or more a week. 2 'Worked less than 35 hours a week. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Mothers Special Labor Force Report No. 50. (husband present) who had preschool children were even less inclined to work full time or. the year round. Sixty-one percent children and none younger worked of the mothers with 3- to 5-year-old |
