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Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1986
An Employment and Housing Subcommittee hearing on home-based work focused on typically female clerical workers. The following women were found to face obstacles to conventional 9-to-5 jobs: women needing child care, displaced homemakers who lack job training and experience, rural women, disabled women, and older women who encounter job…
Descriptors: Career Education, Clerical Workers, Day Care, Employed Women
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987
Equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action policies have been the subject of much debate in recent years. Much of the disagreement is based on incomplete or distorted views about what affirmative action is and how it affects minorities and nonminorities. The Study Group on Affirmative Action was created to investigate current EEO…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1985
This Congressional report contains the testimony given at a hearing pertaining to passage of the Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act of 1985. (The act, which would terminate in September 1987, would authorize an employer to pay a subminimum, "youth employment opportunity wage" to a person under 20 years of age.) Included among those…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Federal Legislation
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1983
As mandated by law, this 1983 revision describes the Oklahoma State Department of Education's Affirmative Action Plan and analyzes the employment patterns of the department's work force for that year in light of equal employment opportunity goals. Following a brief policy statement, the development, dissemination, and implementation of the plan…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Compliance (Legal), Educational Administration, Employed Women
Hartmann, Heidi I. – 2000
Studies indicate these potential sources of wage differentials between women and men: women have different skills and qualifications; they work in the same jobs and establishments and have equal qualifications but receive unequal pay; and they work in different jobs or establishments, where pay is low, but have qualifications similar to men…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparable Worth, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Williams, Walter E. – 1977
In this study, the problem of youth and minority employment in the United States is analyzed. The scope and character of the problem is defined. To demonstrate worsening trends, data from selected years since 1946 are presented. A preliminary explanation of supply and demand in the labor market is offered. A number of the causes of youth…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Employment Problems
Walter, Gerard G.; And Others – 1987
This paper describes the educational, employment, and earnings status of deaf high school graduates 1 and 10 years after leaving high school, in order to evaluate the ability of young deaf adults to profit from further education and to earn a living after leaving high school. Questionnaires were completed by almost 4,000 graduates of 27…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Deafness
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
This congressional report contains testimony given at the first of a series of comprehensive hearings on the impact of automation on employment and the workplace. Included among those agencies and organizations represented at the hearing were the following: the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; the American Federation…
Descriptors: Automation, Competition, Computer Science, Employment Patterns
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1990
This document records the oral and written testimony given at a hearing on preparation of the work force for the year 2000 and beyond. Testimony was given by Senator Barbara Mikulski; John Lynch, whose company prepared the report, "Workforce 2000"; Joan Patterson and Nelson Brooks, coexecutive directors of the United Auto…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Basic Skills, Educational Needs
Illinois Commission on the Status of Women, Springfield. – 1984
The rapid impoverishment of women and their children has serious implications for the American family and for the nation. This report includes testimony before the Illinois Commission on the Status of Women from national and state representatives of women's organizations, social services agencies, advocacy groups, and civil rights organizations. A…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Blacks, Children
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs. – 2001
This document examines employment and social policy in the European Union in 1999-2001. The document begins with an interview with Anna Diamantopoulou, the European Union's commissioner for employment and social affairs and the paper "Balancing Jobs, Cohesion, and Productivity" by Odile Quintin, the European Union's director-general for…
Descriptors: Coordination, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment