CANADA: PERCENTAGE WORKING WOMEN
By Samatha Oliver
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age
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Agricultural Age: Percentage of Working Women
Both men and women work on the land together, keeping the family together.
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Industrial Age: Percentage of Working Women:
Prrestigious for middle and upper class men in the West if their wives did not work vs. lower class where women had to work to help support their families. In contrast, ideology in socialist countries promoted women's equality via working men.
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Information Age: Percentage of Working Women:
Increasing percentage of women working, whether married or single for economic and personal growth reasons. People also living longer and having less children, thus women no longer needing to spend their whole lives raising children.
Information/Data on Percentage of Working Women in Canada
While the family unit in Canada is the center of society is common to have both parents working. The average size of family is comparable to that of the U.S.
Conclusions on Canada (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Percentage of Women Working)
In the industrial age but moving to the information age.
Additional Online Sources on Percentage of Women Working in Canada
Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Percentage of Women Working
- World Alamanac 1996
- CIA. World Factbook
- Culturgram '96.
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