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feminization of labor  

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  • The feminization of labor refers to the increasing integration of women into the wage labor market as a result of industrialization and globalization processes. The rise of the United States as an industrial power in the 20th century marked the increase in the demand for female workers into the wage labor force. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Feminization of Labor]

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