The Fact
Pew Research Center’s synthesis of historical time-diary data found that mothers averaged about 8 hours per week of paid work in 1965 and about 21 hours per week in 2011.
What This Means
Across the years when Generation X was growing up and then becoming adults, mothers moved a much larger portion of their weekly labor into paid employment.
Sources
- Pew Research Center, Modern Parenthood: Americans’ Time at Paid Work, Housework and Child Care, 1965–2011.