Rural Women are Working Harder for the Money
In rural America, 70 percent of married mothers with children under age six work for pay, finds a major new report spanning nearly 40 years of women's employment trends. “Working Hard for the Money: Trends in Women’s Employment, 1970–2007,” was recently released by the Carsey Institute, a policy research organization at the University of New Hampshire. The new report is the latest in a Casey-supported series of Carsey’s Reports on Rural America. As men's employment rates have dropped over the past four decades, more rural women are working to keep the lights on at home. Written by Kristin Smith, a family demographer at the Carsey Institute, the report is the first major study of women's employment trends to tease out differences between rural and urban women's work. Read the report (Source: Family Economic Success Newsletter March 2009)
Wanda DeBruler
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