married women with children were in fact more likely to work for pay when Millennials were children compared with when Gen X’ers were children—the percentage of married mothers with children under 6 who were in the workforce surged past 50% in 1984, just as preschool children were more likely to be Millennials than Gen X’ers. The increase in working mothers was a fairly linear trend, not something that only impacted Gen X’ers.
