No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
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Appendix B
Corrected Table, p. 373, Percentage of Adult Women in U.S. Paid Labor Force by Ethnicity/Race, 1900-2000
| All Women | White | Black | Latina1 | Asian American2 | Native American | ||||
| MX | PR-US | CH | JP | FL | |||||
| 1900 | 20.6 | 16.0 | 40.7 | n/a | n/a | 10.4 | 30.1 | n/a | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 23.7 | 19.5 | 38.9 | n/a | n/a | 12.5 | 25.9 | 11.6 | 11.5 |
| 1950 | 29.5 | 28.1 | 37.4 | 21.9 | 38.9 | 33.7 | 41.6 | 28.0 | 17.0 |
| 1960 | 37.7 | 38.0 | 42.2 | 28.8 | 36.3 | 44.2 | 44.1 | 36.2 | 25.5 |
| 1970 | 43.3 | 43.0 | 47.5 | 36.4 | 31.6 | 49.5 | 49.4 | 55.2 | 35.3 |
| 1980 | 51.1 | 52.0 | 53.3 | 49.0 | 40.1 | 58.3 | 58.5 | 68.1 | 47.7 |
| 1990 | 57.5 | 56.4 | 59.5 | 52.8 | 42.8 | 59.2 | 55.5 | 72.3 | 55.1 |
| 1996 | 59.3 | 59.1 | 60.4 | 53.4 | 47.43 | 58.6 | n/a | ||
| 2000 | 60.2 | 60.2 | 65.1 | 54.6 | 55.04 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Sources: Teresa Amott & Julie Matthaei, Race Gender and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic History of Women in the United States (Boston: South End Press, 1996), 307; Bureau of Labor Statistics News (Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, 2000), Tables No. A1 and A2; Claudia Goldin, Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (NY: Oxford Press, 1990), Table 2.1, p.17; Joyce Jacobsen, The Economics of Gender, 2nd ed. Table 15.2 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998), 459. See Amott & Matthaei for discussion of problems in data comparability.
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