Certainly the most dramatic change in the structure of the U.S. labor force in the period since the Second World War has been the increase in participation by married women in paid employment.
Outline the pace and demographic structure (i.e., age, marital status, presence and age of children) of this change paying attention to both cohort and cross-sectional patterns.
Given what you know of the economics of female labor force participation, what do you consider to be the major forces which led to increased numbers of employed married women?