For what reasons has the U.S. workforce become increasingly female over the past 70 years?
1 Answer
Apr 17, 2017
Several reasons.
Explanation:
The rise of feminism in the seventies. Feminism demonized the traditional pattern of the family with a dad working and a mom housewife. The workplace was praised as a sort of liberation.
The shift of the economy from industries to services provided a tremendous amount of jobs for pink collars i.e female workers.
In the fifties,jobs were paid enough to support a single family financially speaking, it ended in the seventies.
Divorce rate skyrocketed, one-parent families made of single moms had to rely on part-tim jobs in the service sector for subsusitance.
