Thirty percent of American women aged 18 to 24 who had graduated from high school were enrolled in college, and 13.6 percent had completed a four-year college degree. Then, as now, finding satisfactory child care was a challenge for employed mothers.īy 1980, the average age at marriage had increased to 22. It wasn’t yet common for married women with young children under age 6 to be employed about 37 percent were in the labor force.
Those who conceived before marriage were likely to marry before the birth occurred. Twenty-five percent of women high school graduates aged 18 to 24 were enrolled in college and about 8 percent of adult women had completed four years of college.Ĭhildbearing was still closely tied to marriage. In that year, the average age at first marriage for women in the U.S.
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