Divorce Rates, Birth Rates, and Female Participation in the Labor Force

Divorce Rates, Birth Rates, and Female Participation in the Labor Force

Introduction

The incorporation of women into the labor market receive special attention in one way today, because in socio-demographic studies, it delves more into the causes and consequences of concentration or segregation of women in certain activities or occupations, as well as discrimination suffering because of their gender. In gender studies and women's organizations have stressed frequently in the need to make visible women's economic participation. The work performed by women is mostly casual, discriminatory, and part-time and certainly are not properly recorded in the data sources are more global cone population censuses. In surveys conducted in America on occupancy percentages of economically active female population tells us that in 1979 there were already 21% of female labor force and now there is already 39%.

In the seventies, the highest proportion of economically active women is located in the age group 20 to 24 years; however, in the eighties and nineties this occurs after age 25, more specifically, information surveys indicate that participation of women in the labor market has increased considerably in recent decades. The feminization of the industrial labor force has been analyzed from different perspectives, at different times based on different sources of information. One of them is taken into account their regional location. Some authors discuss the socio-economic and socio-demographic of women working in the sector in several cities.

Others analyze the characteristics of employment in different industries; receive attention and small industry in the Midwest, the makeup industry in the border region, the industrial sector in New York City and the impact of industrial restructuring American regions. It has been found that in 2007 around 1,200 million working women throughout the world. This represents an increase of 200 million women or 18.4 percent over a decade, according to Global employment trends for women, a study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) made public this year.

In the case of Latin American countries, the increased participation of women in the workforce has been from 47.9 percent to 52.9 percent, the second highest in the world after the Middle East. The report argues that both the increase in female rates as the decline in participation rates of men produced a reduction in the gender gap among economically active people. In 2007, there were 67 active women per 100 men. But the question remains whether the increase in female participation was reflected in a better position in the labor market. A review of a set of other indicators suggests that this is not the case.

Review of Previous Literature

The purpose of this paper is to explore the unique nature of labor markets and to consider how these markets will evolve in response to changes in the nature of the work people do over time. Use of labor, like any economic resource, has to be considered carefully in light of productivity and opportunity costs. Though many factors affect this decision-making process, in most cases labor ...