A researcher analyzed data from the 1977 Lesotho Fertility Survey to determine the degree to which female employment affects fertility levels. Never worked women experienced only slightly higher fertility (3.2), as evidenced by age standardized values, than did currently working women (3) and ever worked women (3.1). These differences were not statistically significant, as was also true for zero parity. The proportion of zero parity for ever worked women (14.1) was higher than that for never worked women (12.2). Significant differences in mean children ever born (CEB) between never worked (4.6) and ever worked (3) existed only for the no education of women category. These differences are very small in other education categories, including education of the husbands. Many adult Lesotho males work outside the country, often in South African mines, and this absence apparently has little significant effect on CEB. It does tend to reduce fertility, however. For example, CEB for ever worked women with often absent husbands stood at 2.9 while those who husbands lived at home stood at 3. As for never worked women, the corresponding CEB values were 3 and 3.2. When observing currently working women, differences do arise between professional-clerical occupations (2.4) and household-services (2.9) and sales and manual occupations (4.1). In addition, the CEB for women in sales and manual jobs was higher than that of never worked women (3.3) which indicates that a role conflict between work and childbearing among these women does not exist. Women who worked seasonally exhibited the lowest CEB (2.6). Women who worked only before marriage had a lower CEB (2.7) than did those who worked only after marriage (3.7), regardless of husband's continual presence or absence.