May 09, 2002 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Women of Generation X in the labor forceWomen who were 25 to 34 years old in 2000 had a markedly different relationship to the labor market than did their counterparts in the 1970s. Among the differences between young women in the 1970s and in 2000:
These data are a product of the Current Population Survey. For more information, see "The labor force experience of women from Ă‚â€˜Generation X’," by Marisa DiNatale and Stephanie Boraas, Monthly Labor Review, March 2002. Happy 10th Birthday, TED!The very first issue of The Editor's Desk (TED) was posted on September 28, 1998. TED was the first online-only publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For 10 years, BLS has been committed to posting a new TED article each business day, for a total of over 2,400 articles so far. |
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