The increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
二十世紀(jì)已婚婦女在家庭以外就業(yè)的人數(shù)不斷增加,這與家務(wù)的機械化及這些婦女閑暇時間的增加并無多大聯(lián)系,更多地是與婦女自身的經(jīng)濟需要和高婚姻率相關(guān)。高婚姻率致使所能雇傭的單身女工的總量縮減,而在此之前的許多情形中,單身女性則是雇主們所愿雇傭的唯一-一類婦女。 The pool of 如果后面跟著一群人,則表示勞動力資源。