Must-read: Heather Boushey and Kavya Vaghul: “Women have made the difference for family economic security”

Must-Read: Heather Boushey and Kavya Vaghul: Women have made the difference for family economic security: “The steady movement of women into the U.S. workforce over the past half-century…

…has dramatically changed the composition of family incomes…. Even as more women have joined the labor force and families have lost their time for caregiving, too many families’ continue to face economic insecurity…. Over the past four decades, women’s increased earnings and increased annual hours of work have been essential as families across the United States seek to find and maintain economic security….
This analysis is an extension and update of the analysis presented in the forthcoming book ‘Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict’ authored by… Heather Boushey….

Between 1979 and 2013, on average, low-income families in the United States saw their incomes fall by 2.0 percent. Middle-income families, however, saw their incomes grow by 12.4 percent, and professional families saw their incomes rise by 48.8 percent. Over the same time period, the average woman in the United States saw her annual working hours increase by 26.4 percent…