| Résumé: | This paper investigates the characteristics of female workers and their households which determine their wage status, or distribution into salaried versus non-salaried categories. The article focusses on women in 1970, a time of relative economic growth in Mexico City. It forms part of a larger study which analyzes female employment during periods of prosperity and adversity in Mexico.The analysis uses logistic regression to test the argument that, in addition to factors of labor demand, for women the determinants of wage status also are governed by a number of individual and household constraints: age, education, marital status, migration status, family size, gender of the household head, household structure, the number of additional workers in the household, and the presence of young children, servants and elderly persons in the household. The results indicate that women with extensive domestic responsibilities are morew likely to be non-salaried. Marital status, age, education, and two childcare proxies -domestic servants and elderly persons in the household- are the principle individual and household determinants of wage status.
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