The Status of Family Leave in America

Abstract

The “traditional” family, one in which the mother and father both reside in the same home and the mother does not work outside of the home, now accounts for less than seven percent of all families in the United States (13, p.56). More than sixty percent of women of childbearing age in the United States are in the work force and forty percent of these women have children under three years of age (1, p.4). Approximately eighty percent of mothers will be in the work force in the year 2000 (8, p.3). Two‐thirds of new workers entering the work force between now and the year 2000 will be women (13, p.57).

Citation

Taylor, J. and Kleiner, B.H. (1997), "The Status of Family Leave in America", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 25-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010681