Women’s Career Development

Abstract

Abstract Although it used to be assumed that women’s careers were not as important as men’s because they occupied only short periods of the adult woman’s life span, societal changes over the last 40 or 50 years have led to increased employment for women outside the home. Women’s careers have become an increasingly important part of most women’s lives and, as we now see, critically important for their mental health. Women now constitute a significant portion of the labor force in the United States and, conversely, the vast majority of U.S. women work outside the home. In the year 2000, three fifths of women were employed. Of those aged 25–44, 75% were employed. Sixty percent of women with children under the age of one year (12 months) are employed. The odds that a woman will work outside the home during her adult life are over 90%. Consequently, paid employment (vs. work inside the home) is now the rule, not the exception. There is no category of women for whom the majority is not employed outside the home.

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