According to a recent study of how women manage maternity in the workplace, more than 70% of pregnant employees were still employed at the same job 6 months after childbirth (compared to 80% of young women who had not been pregnant). A study of 324 randomly selected employed women in the Midwest yielded similar results. Six months after giving…

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…

Reports results of an approach using a multiple regression model to determine factors leading to larger male earnings and identifying potential discrimination with these factors, which included differences in the return to investment in human capital, rate of employment, type of employer, and return to experience. (TA)

In their annual employment reports of 1972, the 609 commercial television stations included in this study reported that 10 percent of their 39,071 full time employees were drawn from members of minority groups, a slight increase from the nine percent reported in 1971. The proportion of women employees (22 percent) did not change between 1971 and…

Examines differences in unemployment rates and salaries between comparable men and women in science and engineering. Analyzes the current job market in science and engineering, explains the impact of federal appropriation decisions in this area, and predicts the supply and demand imbalances among scientists and engineers for the forseeable future.…

The National Council of Administrative Women in Education proposes that the time is here to advance American education by enlivening the upper levels of the educational establishment with a new flow of qualified women into administrative and policymaking positions. The basic principle that emerges from government employment requirements is that…

Unprecedented numbers of women are altering the workplace dramatically. Issues to which employers, government, and educational and support institutions must respond include education and training, economic security, employment policies and practices, family and elder care, and aging workers. (SK)

This volume contains 12 papers commissioned by the Panel on Technology and Women's Employment. "Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives" (Eli Ginzberg) is an overview that provides a context for the volume. The four case studies in Part II describe the impact of information technology in the insurance industry, among bookkeepers, among…

Secondary analyses of data collected in the Mothers in the Workplace study examined how family-relevant workplace policies and practices may influence childbearing women's labor force participation during pregnancy and after childbirth. It focused on 2,375 women who held wage and salary jobs during pregnancy and 1,761 of these women who were…

The female share of the older work force has nearly doubled since 1950. In 1987, the 6.2 million women aged 55 and over in the labor force constituted 4 of every 10 older workers. Because young women today have a stronger work attachment than did their mothers and grandmothers, the female share of the older work force is likely to continue to…

The information bulletins presented here are the first three issues of a biannual serial. They provide up-to-date information on key developments in women's employment position in the European Community (EC) plus some topical items of news and research from member states. Number 1 focuses on the feminization of the EC labor force that continued…

Many economists have tried to explain existing wage differentials between men and women. A new approach compares the relative importance of occupational discrimination with that of wage discrimination. This model allows for variation both in occupational distribution and in wages resulting from differences in job qualifications and productivity…

Data reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Bureau of the Census, and a literature review were used to develop comparative descriptive profiles of the employment status of white U.S. minorities in the workplace. In addition, these data were used to show the progression of African Americans into the workplace from…

This eight-page tabloid-style report presents an overview of past and present working conditions in the United States as a whole and in Hawaii in particular, with emphasis on women and on lower-level workers. The seven articles in the paper cover the following topics: "A Brief History of Labor in Hawaii" (William J. Puette); "The…

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…