In 2009, the percentage of women with children under age 3 who were in the U. S. workforce was closest to that in which of the following previous years?

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Figure 5-1 notes that the percentage of women with children under age 3 who were in the workforce in 1975 was 34.5%, in 1985 was 49.5%, in 1995 was 58.7%, and in 2009 was 61.1%. Although the text does not specifically cite statistics from 1955, it does note that the percentage of women with young children who also are in the labor force has been increasing throughout the past several decades.

In 2009, the Percentage of Women with Children Under Age