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parent families headed by women and Family Expenditure Survey data suggest that approximately one in three such mothers works full-time and one in seven part-time. Such facts led three members of the Royal Commission 2 to point out that one reason why low pay did not emerge as a more important cause of low family income was that married women's earnings lifted families out of lower income levels. They advocated, therefore, the monitoring of the availability of work for married women and access to provisions such as nurseries designed to facilitate such women's participation in the labour force. This accords with the findings of Chapter 5 where it is also suggested that labour force participation by married women in North America may be a prerequisite for raising families from poverty and that it is becoming increasingly archaic to regard women's earnings as secondary or supplementary. 3 For some purposes it is useful to adopt the threefold classification of Chapter 6 and distinguish cases where average earnings differ because of varying personal characteristics acquired prior to entry into the labour force, factors affecting employment in differing jobs given education, and differe

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Author

Peter J. Sloane (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349047130

Category

business

Subjects

Business, Economics, Management

Updated

2026-03-25