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CHAPTER 2
in the early 2000s.77 The declining share of college-educated workers reflects changes in the
economy and new opportunities that have opened up to educated women. Women are still
overrepresented in the early education field as they always have been, but it is not surprising
that college-educated women would leave traditional but lower-paying fields as a greater
variety of better-paying career choices opened up.
In 1971, the United States came close to enacting comprehensive childcare legislation
at the federal level, when Congress passed the Comprehensive
Child Development Act with
bipartisan support. The legislation
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