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Title: The New Breadwinners: 2010 Update Rates of Women Supporting Their Families Economically Increased Since 2007
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Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: In 2009 the Center for American Progress released The New Breadwinners, a chapter in The Shriver Report: A Womans Nation Changes Everything. The report describes howwomens movement out of the home and into the paid labor force has changed everything about how our families live and work today. While our lives have changed as aresult of this dramatic transformation, the institutions surrounding us have not necessarily kept up. In The New Breadwinners, CAP Senior Economist Heather Bousheyillustrated how women have made great strides and are now more likely to be economically responsible for themselves and their families, but there is a still a long way to go.In this brief we update the numbers from The New Breadwinners to reflect the most recent data available based on family income, race, age, and motherhood, and show how the trends identified in the 2009 piece have only grown stronger in the ensuing years.We find that there are more wives, and women generally, supporting their families economically now than ever beforeand there could not be a more important time toensure that working women receive the pay they deserve. The typical woman only earns an average of 77 cents to the male dollar. It is not difficult to imagine how many morewomen would be breadwinnersand how much better off our families would beif the gender wage gap were closed.
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Authors: Glynn, Sarah Jane
Publisher: Center for American Progress
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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