pected to become 2.3 percent and 10.7 percent, respectively, thus, causing the workforce to become even younger.6
The reasons why the workforce becomes younger as the population ages and as the employment participation rate
3Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Current Labor Statistics," Monthly Labor Review, 114 (March 1991): 55.
4E. Sehgal, "Occupational Mobility and Job Tenure," Monthly Labor Review, 107 (October 1983): 19.
5H. N. Fullerton, Jr. and J. Tschetter, "The 1995 Labor Force," Monthly Labor Review, 107 (November 1983): 5.
increases are the increased levels of participation in the workforce by minorities and women. The mean ages for most minority groups are lower than that for Anglos in the United States, and, in the past, most women working outside of the home have not been in the 15 44 age group the prime working age segment of the American population.
The feminist movement is credited with getting women out of the home and into the workforce in ever increasing numbers, since
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