The economic change of women joining the workforce was the greatest revolution in the last 50 years. Women who were once dependent on men changed the way they viewed life. The greatest thing about this change is the fact that there was little friction involved. Society accepted the change with little conflict, almost welcoming this change in a way. Nearly 46.5% of the current U.S. workforce is women, this is the highest it has ever been. Women have had a rapid increase in their participation of the workforce since 1950. Starting out at 32.7% in 1948, and then jumping to 46.8% in 2016. The large increase has since then resulted in the standard living statistics rising in the United States. Here is how women has grown throughout the years.
Around the 1950’s was when women first started to make an appearance in the workforce. Only about one in three women were working around that time. These few women that helped increased these number
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For example in Italy and Japan, employment rates for men are 20 point higher than women. While that may sound like a large gap, it is getting a lot smaller. Countries in the Mediterranean are also finally accepting the change that women are wanting to work as well. Another example is Spain, whos numbers of young women working have reached the same levels as the United States. Africa is has the largest amount of women working worldwide. In india however, the amount of women working is still very low when compared to other countries. According to Pew Research Center, in more than 80 countries, women make up to about 40 percent of the workforce. Many countries are jumping on this huge economic change. One big shocker is that the top five countries with the highest amount of women working, are all sub-Saharan Africa. Here, 74 percent are women leaving only 61 percent being men in the workforce. That is way higher than the United States and