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November 1987

Women’s work plans: contrasting expectations and actual work experience

Lois B. Shaw, David Shapiro

Eighty percent of women with work plans were in the labor force, while 50 percent who did not plan to work were employed; those women with consistent work expectations earned higher wages.

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