The important change in women's life pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic positions.

妇女生活方式的这一重要变化仅仅是最近才开始对妇女的经济地位产生了全面影响。

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All of this was then multiplied in effect, by the economic and social changes that altered the established pattern of community life in cities, towns and villages throughout Britain and throughout the developed world.

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