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Myth 11
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Married women who have husbands to support them should stay home and leave the good paying jobs for men.

FACT: Many American families are unable to support themselves on a single income. As a result, the proportion of married-couple families with the wife in the paid labor force rose from approximately 40 percent in 1972 to 59 percent in 1990. In that same year, the median income for married-couple families with both husband and wife in the labor force was $44,053 compared to $32,478 for those without the wife in the paid labor force. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, even if all the employed married women gave their jobs to unemployed men, there would still be 1.2 million unfilled jobs.

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Adapted from the Orientation to Nontraditional Occupations for Women (ONOW) Curriculum of the Ohio Department of Education; the Women in Highway Construction manual of the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Labor; 20 Facts on Women Workers (1990), U.S. DOL Women's Bureau; and 1993 Handbook on Women Workers: Trends and Issues, U.S. DOL Women's Bureau.
 
 
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