{"id":741,"date":"2016-05-17T07:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/?p=741"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:05:44","slug":"women-have-made-the-difference-for-family-economic-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/2016\/05\/17\/women-have-made-the-difference-for-family-economic-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Women have made the difference for family economic security"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why are families less economically secure today? After all, there\u2019s been four decades of families seeming<\/em> to have the opportunity to earn more and do better\u2014this largely due to women\u2019s movement into the U.S. workforce. According to a new report, women\u2019s increased earnings and hours have been vital in the American family\u2019s search<\/em> for economic security. How has that search gone? Heather Boushey<\/a> and Kavya Vaghul<\/a>\u2019s new report \u201cWomen have made the difference for family economic security\u201d<\/a> offers some answers.<\/p>\n

Boushey, Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth<\/a>, and research team member Vaghul used data from the Current Population survey to focus on changes in family income between 1979 and 2013 for low-, middle-, and professional-income families. They delved into the difference between men\u2019s and women\u2019s earnings regarding greater pay, as well as women\u2019s earning as a function of more hours worked. They also looked at other sources of income between 1979 and 2013.<\/p>\n

Boushey and Vaghul had three main findings:<\/p>\n