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Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Inspection Support Network. By a variety of metrics, women’s economic power has increased significantly in recent decades. The labor force participation rate for women has increased dramatically in the postwar era: Only around 1 in 3 women were working or seeking work in the late 1940s, compared with 3 out of 5 women now.
