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Show 125 Women in the Labor Force Only a small proportion of families depend on earnings and salaries. from self-employment. I1UJ of husba;n.d-wife familie8.-Median income in 1964 for all For the 13.6 the 41.6 million husband-wife families was $6,932. million families in which the wife worked, the median income was $8,170. This was considerably more than the $6,338 median income force. An for families in which the wife was not in the labor force. Sixty-two percent of the families with working wives had incomes of $7,000 or more compared with 43 percent of those with wives not in the labor undetermined, although small, percentage of husband some income from the earnings of other family wife families had members. In a very small percentage of families the husband was not working. of female-head families.-bne-tenth of all families were Their median income was only $3,458the above $3,000 poverty line. Families in which the woman just head was a year-round full-time worker did better-their median in come was $5,079, still substantially below the $7,296 median income Income headed by a woman in 1964. of male-head families in which the wife did not work. However, in only 29 percent of the families headed by a woman was the family head a full-time breadwinner compared with 70 percent of the male of the families with a female head head families. Nineteen percent More detailed data from the 1960 cen sus indicate that female-head families depend to a larger extent than had incomes of $7,000 or more. do husband-wife families on income from other family members. other characteristics of female-head families, see section 20.) 60. Income of Women (For Compared With That of Men Differrerwe8 in income reaeived.-During 1964, 60 percent of the women 14 years of age and over in the population and 91 percent of The median income re substantially below that received the men received some income of their own. ceived by women, however, was by men. The 41.7 million women who had income of their own had a median income of $1,449 (table 58). The 58.5 million men, in con those trast, had more than three times as' much ($4,647). Among income median the salaries whose income consisted of wages and only, of women was $1,909 and that of men was $5,015. The difference was not as great-but was still substantial-among year-round full-time workers. In 1964 women year-round full-time workers had a median 60 percent of that of wage or salary income of $3,690, which was only men ($6,195). |
