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Peer reviewedYaffe, Jerry – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1993
Traces the history of discrimination against Hispanics in the public sector work force, drawing examples from large public agencies of Los Angeles (California) and other state and national public work forces. Hispanics must overturn the destructive strategies and policies so effectively used by the power elite. (SLD)
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Employment Problems, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Ethnic Discrimination
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1980
This document contains the proceedings of a high-level conference on the Employment of Women, attended by labor ministers and other high officials of countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Delegates to the conference adopted a 14-point declaration pledging themselves to achieve equality of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affirmative Action, Economic Development, Employed Women
Download full textDisplaced Homemakers Network, Washington, DC. – 1989
This study was conducted to determine how many workers are in low-wage jobs; their characteristics and changes in their characteristics over time; the characteristics of the low-wage jobs; gender, sex, and racial factors influencing participation in low-wage jobs; and the relationship of low-wage work to family poverty and welfare receipt. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Asian Americans, Blacks, Education Work Relationship
Beckmann, Petra – 1998
The actual and desired working hours of women in western and eastern Germany were examined by surveying a random sample of 6,742 western and eastern German women aged 18-65 years. Of the women interviewed, 1,800 from western Germany and 1,341 from eastern Germany were in dependent employment. An overall response rate of 52.8% was achieved.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
Compton, David M.; Vinton, Dennis A.
In response to the need for up-to-date information on employment opportunities for handicapped people in the leisure occupations, a national survey was conducted to determine both existing levels of employment and employer practices. The survey was sent to 500 agencies and businesses representing four leisure occupational subclusters: travel,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Employer Attitudes, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities
International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC. – 1980
Work in the lives of most Third World nation women is not a matter of equity and/or self-actualization. Rather, the changing economic roles and responsibilities of women make working a matter of economic survival. Despite the limitations of existing definitional and measurement problems related to data collection, regional data do exist which…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Change Strategies, Developing Nations, Discriminatory Legislation
Rouhelo, Anne; Ruoholinna, Tarita – 2000
Research synthesized from three studies of the Finnish labor market indicates that a rapidly changing working life in Finland (and the rest of Europe) sets many different challenges for the workforce. In Finland, the population is even more aged than in the other European Union (EU) member states, and the transition of older workers to retirement…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Demography
