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  • It’s April 15: Do You Know Where Your Income Tax Dollars Are Going?

    Posted on April 15, 2008 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Andrew Cherlin

    Americans tend to think we are better off than families in most other industrial countries because we pay lower income taxes. But when we factor in the higher amount Americans pay for health care, child care, and education, the comparison is not always in our favor. Where do American families’ tax dollars go and what […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Health & Illness / Health Care / Labor & Workforce / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & Family
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    Moms and Jobs: Trends in Mothers’ Employment and Which Mothers Stay Home

    Posted on May 10, 2007 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Paula England

      The employment of wives and mothers rose dramatically from 1960 to about 1990, and thereafter has leveled off. There was a small dip from 2000 to 2004, but employment rates had inched back to 2000 levels by 2006, the latest figures available. Contrary to recent press accounts, there has not been an “op-out” revolution. […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    A “Stalled” Revolution or a Still-Unfolding One?

    Posted on May 4, 2007 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Barbara Risman

    In 1960, only 40 percent of women aged 25-54 years old were in the labor force. By 2000, 70 percent of women that age were employed. For married women with children aged six through seventeen, employment rates grew from 40 percent in 1960 to a peak of almost 80 percent by the new millennium. Sixty percent of married women with children under school age now work for pay, compared to less than 20 percent in 1960. Mothers are still more likely than fathers to work part-time, but they are less likely to do so than they were in the past. Wives work for pay eighty percent of the hours their husbands work for pay, a huge increase since the 1960s.

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Are Mothers Really Leaving the Workplace?

    Posted on March 8, 2006 in Brief Reports


    By Heather Boushey, Ph.D. Senior Economist Center for American Progress Recent media reports claim that mothers are increasingly “opting out” of employment to stay home with their families. But according to a new study released by the Council on Contemporary Families and the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the 20-year trend has been in […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Family Policy in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Italy, and France: Parental Leave, Child Benefits, Family Allowances, Child Care, Marriage, Cohabitation, And Divorce.

    Posted on May 1, 2003 in Brief Reports


    Twentieth century social policy in industrial nations was originally formulated on the assumption that one particular family model was both the most prevalent and the most desirable. A family was supposed to consist of a married couple — one male breadwinner and one female homemaker — and their children, and the wages of a man were assumed to be enough to support a wife and children. Almost all women were assumed to be housewives.

    Accordingly, women and children’s access to market income was organized through marriage, as was their access to social insurance. Male workers could claim social insurance benefits for themselves and their dependents from the state, unions, employers and other institutions, but women seldom had any way to make claims independently. When husbands died, widows with children could draw pensions from the state and/or receive aid from the husband’s union, while women without husbands usually had no legal way to make such claims. At the same time, work was organized on the assumption that all men were married to women who could devote their time and labor to the care of children.

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    EXPERTS

    M. V. Lee Badgett

    Professor of Economics, School of Public Policy UMass Amherst; Williams Institute UCLA

    Kathleen Gerson

    Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Jennifer Glass

    Professor of Sociology , University of Texas, Austin

    Jeffrey Hayes

    Program Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research

    Roberta Iversen

    Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Social Policy program, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

    Arielle Kuperberg

    Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Elizabeth Peters

    Director, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population, Urban Institute

    Justin Wolfers

    Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

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