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Women’s steadily increasing commitment to the paid labor force and to full-time work is certainly one of the biggest, longest-running, and most important stories in recent American history—a story warranting the 26 tables and figures devoted to it here.
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Costello, C.B., Wight, V.R., Stone, A.J. (2002). Employment. In: Costello, C.B., Wight, V.R., Stone, A.J. (eds) The American Woman 2003–2004. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11600-0_12
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