The decline of workers contributing to Social Security means there will be less benefits that will be replaced. Currently the Baby boomers have the highest labor force participation of any generations in American history. (Crain, 2006) The generations following the Baby Boomer generation will not have the numbers to replace the Baby Boomers place in the workforce. According to Crain (2006) nearly 90% of the Baby Boomer generation works, which is over half of the entire workforce in the nation. About 80% of female Baby Boomers worked which was also a contribution to the two income family.
Another change that has happened in childbearing since the 1970's is that women are having fewer children and children later in life. Between 1971 and 2005 the average age of a women when having her first child rose by three years. Also the average number of children per family went all the way down to 1.84 in the UK when 30 years back it was 2.95. Women are also choosing to remain childless and a prediction has been made that a quarter of people who were born in 1973 will be childless when they reach 45. This all reflects the changes in society since the 20th century and that women have more options
If we look at D1, we can measure that because the baby population was lower, baby sitters were cheaper. Yet, as the baby population increases to D2, the price also increases due to the shortage of means. Notice also the point of equilibrium moving up and to the right where D2 intersects S1. 2. What is the effect on the market for an hour of babysitting services 14 years into the future, after the birth rate has returned to normal, by which time children born today, during this increased birthrate, will be old enough to work as babysitters?
By 1945 80 percent of collective farm workers were women, providing a more traditional role for women in manual labour. The rapid growth of industrialisation and collectivisation led to a dramatic decrease in births in the early 1930’s. The government tried to implement measures to bring the birth rate back up. Women who had more than 6 children qualified for state help. The rewards were considerable amounts of money, women with 7 children received 2,000 roubles a year for five years and 5,000 a year for women with 11 children.
This demographic will continually increase due to baby boomers entering their retirement years as well as the number of elderly living past the age of 85. Likewise, the Hispanic elderly population will increase by 12.8 million and is expected to be one of the largest minority groups living older in age (Woodside & McCalm, 2011). This population surge will cause issues for governments and agencies at all levels with implications in policy making, planning and many other areas. This means increased education levels and more elderly citizens who are minorities. On the same token, the income for elderly
However, an event that helped shape the future was the lives of women. For hundreds of years, women were down-graded and not deemed important. But, from the year 1914, the importance of women gradually kept increasing, resulting in women gaining new jobs, new responsibilities and a respectful place in society. In this essay, I will analyse five selected sources and determine whether the lives of women on the Home Front were greatly affected by the First World War. Firstly, employment for women throughout the war had a drastic improvement; many jobs became available for women to choose from.
Much of the increased employment occurred in the years after 1940, and the 1940’s mark an apparent break with the past in terms of the women’s work. The participation rate in 1940 of the married women 35 to 44 years old was a little less but it increased in 1950 later on. In 1940’s it would appear, were a watershed in married women’s labor force participation. The timing of the initial advance in women’s employment and the extensive propaganda used to attract women into the labor force during the war, have led many to credit the World War II with spurring the modern increase in married women’s paid employment. The various explanations offered for the rise of married women’s paid employment still leave room for the impact of cataclysmic and unique events, such as World War II.
Research performed by the American Progress Organization shows that nearly 6 out of 10 women are the primary, sole, or co-provider for their family. As more dependence is being placed on women, the wages are expected to match with those demands. A route to a faster improvement would be to raise the minimum wage. The demand for more money is very high and women make up two-thirds of the minimum wage workers. A raise in the minimum wage gap would inadvertently help everyone, while still deliberately aiding in the step for equality in the workplace.
Increased minimum wage for teens without a high school diploma was responsible for over 114,000 fewer employed teens (Even, 2010, p. A15). III. Dependency on the welfare system increases due to the increase demand for more skilled workers. A. Mothers on welfare in states that raised their minimum wage remained on welfare 44 percent longer than mothers on welfare in states where it was not raised (Garfield, 1996).
Sociology Of The Family Assignment Family trends in the last decade have sufficiently changed according to statistics brought together by national statistics. Lone parenting on a general whole has increased. To prove this, national Statistics (2007) show clear results of family type changes since 1971 to 2006. From 1979 to 2006 lone parenting has more than doubled going from 3 percentage points to 7 percentage points. When looking more in-depth, and looking at female and male, results show lone mother families with one child has increased from 2 percentage points to 7 percentage points, 2 children in a lone mother family has increased by more than four times the amount from 2 percentage points to 9 percentage points.