During the 20th century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman married at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twentieth. She might have seven or eight children, and four or five of them lived till they were five years old. When the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties. After this, she would hardly find any work to make money because of the opportunities and poor health. Today women married younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five. She may live another thirty-five years and take paid work until sixty. This important change in women lives has also changed women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most young girls left school and took a full time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never came back to it. Today the school leaving age is sixteen. Many girls stay at school after that age. As women marry younger, many married women only leave work just before their first child is born, and many of them come back to work soon after. Such changes have made the family life different from before, with the husband having more duties and satisfactions of family life.