More U.S. women are staying at home rather than working, either by choice or lack of job opportunities.
That's what a Pew Research Center study found when it compared the share of women who do not work outside the home in 2012 vs. prior years. Pew chose 1999 and 1970 as benchmark years for comparison's sake.
Its research showed that the number of women who do not go to work trended generally downward from 49 percent in 1970 to 23 percent in 1999.
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