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Projections of the female labor force to the 1990’s (Smith, 1979) present a picture not radically different from the labor force today. The female labor force has grown rapidly in this century, especially since World War II. In 1978, there were over 40 million women in the labor force; about half of all women age 16 and over. By 1990, 52 million are expected to be in the labor force; about 55% of the women over 16. Other estimates were made by another study (Flaim & Fullerton, 1978) which had three different scenarios depending on varying assumptions about future growth in the U.S. work force. Under their low growth assumption, their labor force estimates projected close to 51 million women (a 54% participation rate); their intermediate growth assumption projected about 54 million (a 57% participation rate), and their high growth assumption projected about 57 million women (a 60% participation rate) in 1990. Under any of these circumstances, therefore, more than half of the women would be in the labor force, and they would constitute close to half of the entire labor force.
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Nieva, V.F. (1982). The Feminization of the Labor Force: Research for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. In: Glickman, A.S. (eds) The Changing Composition of the Workforce. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3464-4_6
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