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Table 6: Marital Distribution of Female Labor (in percentages)

Table 6: Marital Distribution of Female Labor (in percentages).
Urban Sector All Sectors
Year Single Married Single Married
1922 74.3 25.7
1926 74.5 25.5
1929 83.7 15.3
1930 70.0 20.8
1937 68.1 31.9
1941 63.0 37.0 48.6 51.4
Sources:
For 1922, 1926, 1929: Nemirovski, The Female Urban Histadrut, LA 230.IV, p. 9 (Hebrew). The numbers apply to the urban sector only.
For 1930:Census, 1930 Hovrot Statistiyyot, p. 66 (Hebrew).
For 1937: "Workers' Census, 1937" Sicumim 11, p. 53 (Hebrew).
For 1941: Devar ha-Po'elet, March 1941, p. 97 (Hebrew).

Courtesy of Shalvi Publishing Ltd.

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