and they find that "the relative status of women in family life is more difficult to measure than their status in public affairs."
The fact is that the family has changed and that the traditional family structure of homemaker, husband as breadwinner, and children now constitutes only 10 percent of families. The role for women has expanded with more women in the workplace and with a variety of family structures with new roles for all members of the family. Business has been slow to change and to acknowledge the new family, and for all the complaints about the woman's movement as anti-family, the movement has instead followed the trend of placing the family in the forefront and of addressing family issues as vital to women. This has all taken place within the context of expanded choices for women:
There is no 'moral' or politically correct way for the woman in each family to juggle home and family responsibilities. Some are giving up successful careers to care for children. Others start home-based businesses. Most schedule child care and work full time. Yet examples like these do not even begin to describe the diverse courses families take.
More and more women have been entering the job market in the years since World War II. This trend was noted by 1960, but the size of the trend was underestimated. By the mid-1970s, women had entered the job market at rates not expected to be reached until the mid-1980s, and it was reported then that nearly 48 percent of American wome
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