Family & Community

AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving reported that about 70% of family caregivers were employed in 2025.

Historical time-diary data summarized by Pew found that mothers averaged about 51 hours per week of paid work, housework, and childcare combined in 1965 and about 53 hours in 2011. The composition changed sharply: paid work rose while house

BLS family-employment data summarized in the Home Economics research show that about 39% of married-couple households with children had both spouses in the paid labor force in 1970. By the 2020s, that share was about 65.4%.

AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving reported that more than 40% of family caregivers provided high-intensity care in 2025.