Regarding the gender composition of the labour force change from 1900 to the present, ________. Question 59 options: it remained more or less the same except for a brief period in the 1950s when far fewer women worked the percentage of women working rose dramatically, while men's labour force participation shrank slowly after the 1980s the percentage of working women actually decreased, from 80.6 per cent to less than 50 per cent, while the percentage of men working continued to grow in 1900 fewer than 5 per cent of women worked outside of the home; by 2008 close to 90 per cent of women worked outside of the home