dual-earner family

In fact, over 70% of dual-earner families have both parents working full time.

In half of dual-earner families, both partners work full time.

Eighteen percent were members of a dual-earner family with children.

The dual-earner family is a team short of players: there are simply not enough hands to do the work."

In particular, parents in dual-earner families reported the highest levels of time stress.

One such factor is related to the greater participation in the labour force by women, contributing to the growth of dual-earner families.

The dominant family model starting in the 1970s was the dual-earner family where both parents worked.

In most full-time, dual-earner families, the wife had primary responsibility for housework.

More mothers are working than ever before and dual-earner families are now the norm.

Parental leave increases income at the household level, as well, by supporting dual-earner families.

Figure 8 compares the average tax rate on single-earner and dual-earner families with two children earning $80,000.

Conclusion The phenomenal growth of dual-earner families over the 1967 to 1989 period has caused a subtle revolution in society.

Had dual-earner families not grown so much overall, their proportion in that decile would have changed very little.

The majority were from dual-earner families, and 42% had spouses in the same tax bracket. The second group was composed mostly of men.

The percentage of dual-earner families has been relatively stable in the 1990s, following two decades of growth.

On the whole, these consumers experienced average or better income growth in the late 1990s, a trend driven by the growing proportion of dual-earner families.

As a result of women’s increased participation in paid work, dual-earner families have become the norm in Canada.

On average, husbands in dual-earner families earn twice as much as their wives.

Despite the growing number of working wives in dual-earner families, the proportion of family income coming from employment fell between 1967 and 1989.

They reported that the fathers in the dual-earner families helped more with tasks such as feeding, changing diapers and putting the baby to bed.

• Taxes, child care and housing represent a large portion of the budget of dual-earner families with young children.

Women contributing more The massive influx of baby boom women into the labour market has made dual-earner families the majority.

This trend towards a dual-earner family has increased the need to find solutions enabling families to combine work with household responsibilities.

Other families – dual-earner families – have both parents employed either full-time or part-time.

(2) Dual-earner family with two young children.