" This was not just an American phenomenon. A survey of twenty-one industrial countries reported that in the 1970s and 1980s female employment rose twice or even three times as fast as the growth in total employment. In almost every case, married women accounted for the majority of the increase in women’s workforce participation.35 "

― Stephanie Coontz , Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage