Labor Force and Employment

Record Number of Women in the U.S. Labor Force
PRB analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (March Supplement), 1970 to 2000; Howard N. Fullerton, Jr., "Labor Force Participation: 75 Years of Change, 1950-98 and 1998-2025," Monthly Labor Review (December 1999): 3-12; Howard V. Hayghe, "Developments in Women's Labor Force Participation," Monthly Labor Review (September, 1997): 41-46; and Phillip Cohen and Suzanne Bianchi, "Marriage, Children, and Women's Employment: What Do We Know?" Monthly Labor Review (December 1999): 22-31.

What Jobs Do Women and Men Have?
PRB analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March 1999; Mary Bowler, "Women's Earnings: An Overview," Monthly Labor Review 122: 12 (December 1999): 13-21; and U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Highlights of Women's Earnings in 1999," Report 943 (May 2000).

Who's Entering the Labor Force?
Howard N. Fullerton, Jr., "Labor Force Projections to 2008: Steady Growth and Changing Composition," Monthly Labor Review (November 1999): 19-32; and "Labor Force Participation: 75 Years of Change, 1950-98 and 1998-2025," Monthly Labor Review (December 1999): 3-12.

Single Mothers Still a Small Fraction of the Labor Force
PRB analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (March Supplement), 1970 to 2000.

Racial Inequalities in Managerial and Professional Jobs
PRB analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (March Supplement), 1970 to 2000; James Eaton and Manown Kisor, Jr., "Secular and Cyclical Patterns in White and Nonwhite Employment," Monthly Labor Review (May 1996): 30-36; and Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Employer Costs Per Hour Worked for Employee Compensation and Costs as a Percent of Total Compensation: Civilian Workers, by Occupational and Industry Group, March 2000," Accessed online at www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t02.htm (December 20, 2000).