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205 contribution of women to GDP would be well over 50 percent
Ibid.
206 who work outside the home skyrocketed from 12 percent to 55 percent
Robert R. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future (New York: Knopf, 2010), p. 61.
207 rose during the same three decades from 20 to 60 percent
Ibid.
208 all adds up to what Kessler calls ”conditioned hyper-eating”
Tara Parker-Pope, ”How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains,” New York Times, June 23, 2009.
209 playing outside in neighborhoods that, relatively speaking, are p.r.o.ne to more violence
Rebecca Cecil-Carb and Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, ”Childhood Body Ma.s.s Index in Community Context: Neighborhood Safety, Television Viewing and Growth Trajectories of BMI,” Health and Social Work 34 (March 2009): 16977.
210 partly because of the increased partic.i.p.ation of women in the workforce
United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development Division, Family Unit, 20032004, Major Trends Affecting Families, ”Introduction,” social.un.org/index/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=LJsVbHQC7Ss%3d&tabid=282.
211 between 20 and 30 percent of all divorces
Carl Bialik, ”Irreconcilable Claim: Facebook Causes 1 in 5 Divorces,” Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2011; Carl Bialik, ”Divorcing Hype from Reality in Facebook Stats,” Wall Street Journal blog, March 11, 2011, blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/divorcing-hype-from-reality-in-facebook-stats-1046/.
212 Now, only one quarter are
Pew Research Center, ”The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families,” November 18, 2010, pewresearch.org/pubs/1802/decline-marriage-rise-new-families.
213 and having children-without getting married