This chartbook focuses on women's economic activity including labor force trends, occupational and industrial employment patterns, unemployment, and market work of women in a family context. The 15 charts show that women play an important role in the labor market; women's participation has grown dramatically; a smaller proportion of women fill the traditional full-time housekeeping role; three out of four employed adult women work full time; women work in all sectors of the economy; the number of working women has increased sharply in clinical and professional jobs; an average 20-year-old woman can expect to spend approximately 25 years in the labor force; women's share of labor force growth is expected to increase in the 1980s; until recently, women's unemployment rates have been higher; unemployment among women varies by race, education, and age; the proportion of children with mothers in the labor force has grown to more than half; half of all married women are now in the labor force; the proportion of families maintained by a woman has increased markedly; women who maintain families are more likely to face serious economic difficulties; and women's earnings continue to average about 60 percent of men's. Summary statements accompany the charts. (YLB)