The latest statistics on the labor force participation of women with children under age 18 shows why the pandemic has been so hard on famili...

Everyone is always fussing about the ups and downs of women's labor force participation rate. But in fact, men's labor force partici...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects diverging trends for the American labor force.  On the one hand, the labor force participation rate ...

Working parents are having a tough time coping with the coronavirus pandemic. Just how tough is spelled out in a Pew Research Center analysi...

Over the past two decades, the labor force has become much more educated. In 2000, workers with no more than a high school diploma greatly o...

The lives of men and women were vastly different in 1948. Only 1 in 3 women was in the labor force in those post-war years compared with nea...

Overall, 56 percent of women aged 18 or older would prefer to have a job outside the home rather than stay at home and take care of house an...

Fewer men of prime working age are in the labor force. Among men aged 25 to 54, the labor force participation rate fell from 96 percent in 1...

The labor force participation rate of prime-age men (25 to 54) has declined over the past few decades. No one is sure why this has happened,...

Two decades ago, the percentage of older men and women in the labor force was negligible. Marketers could safely ignore them and target only...

The Baby-Boom generation is reaching the age of retirement. But what percentage of the generation has retired? According to a Demo Memo anal...

Baby-boom women are delaying retirement. A look at the labor force participation rate of older women by single year of age shows when labor ...

A look at the labor force participation of older men by single year of age reveals the exact age when retirement becomes the norm—that is, w...