EppsNet Archive: Women

Harriet and Harriet

 

I couldn’t help noticing that Harriet Quimby is a lot prettier than Harriet Tubman. Read more →

Having it All! (Except the Kids)

 

More highlights from the Census Bureau’s Fertility of American Women report released last week: Overall, 43 percent of women of childbearing age (15 to 44 years old) were childless in 2000. Among women who were nearing the completion of their childbearing years (40 to 44 years old), 19 percent were childless, almost twice as many as women in the same age group in 1980 (10 percent). Women nearing the end of their childbearing years had an average of 1.9 children, which is below the level required for the natural replacement of the population (about 2.1 births per woman). This average is one child less than the average for women in this same age group in 1980 (3.0 children). Read more →

Having it All!

 

Working moms are destroying the nation The labor force participation rates of mothers with infant children fell from a record-high 59 percent in 1998 to 55 percent in 2000, the first significant decline since the Census Bureau developed the indicator in 1976, according to the Fertility of American Women report released last week. Read more →

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