, nurse, administrative assistants/clerical. In addition, many women with older children worked part-time to help with the mortgage and expenses of raising teenagers. This situation had come about as a result of women being literally pushed back into the home at the end of World Tar II to provide job opportunities for the returning veterans.
The number of part-time female workers expanded in the 1960s seventies while the number of younger women (25-44) in full-time positions began to grow. This trend was followed by the return to the labor force of the married woman with young children (under age six) at home. In 1960, fewer than one in five jobs were held by these young mothers, but by 1986, one in two had a paid job (Fuchs, 1988, p. 13). Overall, in 1960 only thirty-five percent of women (ages 16 and over) held paid jobs, but by 1986 this figure had grown to fifty-one percent (Fuchs, 1988, p. ii).
However, while the numbers have grown and continue to grow, the results had been discouraging, specifically in the area of economic parity between women and men. Until recently, statistics shoved that the gender gap between the sexes' earning power had not changed in fifty years. Despite female participation in the job market, the rise of feminism, and implementation of antidiscrimination laws affirmative-action programs, the ratio of women's to men's full-time earnings was still fift
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