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dual-income families  

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  • Dramatic changes in the workforce participation of women and men and, to a lesser extent, in the division of labor in the home have occurred in recent decades. The traditional family of the male breadwinner and female homemaker, the norm among middle-class married couples in the 1950s and 1960s, evolved into families where both the husband and wife often work for pay—the dual-earner family or dual-income family. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Dual-Income Families]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-S0RH0RZ4-J

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