The booklet presents (1) a bibliography of approximately 660 references to literature about sex discrimination in the labor market and (2) an expository review of recent research about male/female differences in earnings and occupational assignments. The bibliography is divided into 12 content categories. These include earnings of women workers,…

The annotated bibliography contains citations to appropriate reference books, pamphlets and audiovisual materials for the following 17 occupations: art and craft aide, bridal consultant, child care aide, clothing assistant, companion to the elderly, consumer aide, dietetic aide, fabric coordinator, fashion coordinator, floral designer, food…

Designed for use by vocational educators and their students for the identification and acquisition of job information, this guide is organized into two major sections. Section 1 contains a categorized listing of jobs (for which less than four years of college are required) cross-referenced to resources annotated in section 2. Section 2 cites…

The publication brings job titles in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Third Edition, into conformance with equal employment legislation and with recent administration policy statements and instructions which prohibit the use of sex- and/or age-referent language by the public employment service. Job titles that have sex and/or age…

Reviews theories and empirical findings about self-esteem derived from the work role and its activities. Self-esteem is defined and problems inherent in its measurement are discussed. Theoretical perspectives relating self-esteem to the work role are outlined. Attitudinal and behavioral correlates of high employee self-esteem are presented.…

Several guidelines and circumstances determine the selection of materials for inclusion in the annotated bibliography: (1) only publications concerned specifically with working women not women in general, (2) publications of interest to teachers, researchers, and serious students, rather than entries of general interest to the casual reader, (3)…

In this synthesis of research and literature on the nature of occupationally-transferable skills, the author identifies skills that seem to be highly transferable in the sense of being general to a number of occupations. He then speculates about characteristics of skills that are generalizable or transferable and discusses some implications for…

This annotated bibliography of readings related to dual career couple relationships is divided into eleven areas of focus. Sections included are (1) Alternatives to Rigid Work Imperatives; (2) Child Rearing in Dual Career Families; (3) Collaboration Strategies for Coping; (4) Definition, Trend, and Historical Perspective of Dual Career Couples;…

This bibliography of career information lists books, periodicals, and pamphlets describing individual careers, job hunting techniques, and the world of work. Also included is a section on U.S. Government publications on employment and careers. (Author/JLL)

The author compares research topics, trends, and findings to earlier research on death anxiety correlates. Emphasis is placed on definitions of construct, measurement techniques, concepts of death, variables of sex, age, occupation, socioeconomic status, value orientation, levels of awareness, and relationships between death anxiety and arrays of…

Reviews literature concerning job attribute preferences of full-time and part-time workers. Data reveal that sex and occupation influence preferences. Significant differences in preference rankings of job attributes were found between full- and part-time female clerical employees. For female clerical employees, marital and family status could…

For use by educational planners desiring to match occupational supply and demand data, this report contains conversion tables intended to provide a bridge between the system used to classify occupations in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' National/State Industry-Occupation Matrix System and the system used by the Office of Education to classify…

The first two-thirds of the document is a bibliography on women in the labor market which is divided into 27 categories and sub-categories, the major headings of which are: historical perspective, the supply of female labor in the labor market, earnings of women workers, occupations of women workers (covers occupational distribution, academic and…

The study is an evaluation of the utility of manpower forecasting in the United States as a basis for manpower, education, and health policy. It examines the methodology employed and the scope of analysis in nearly 400 forecasts made in the period 1965-73. It assesses the adequacy of the theoretical and empirical knowledge base for forecasting in…

This index represents the fourth of five components of a project conducted to design a comprehensive information system (termed SYSTEM) for identifying, selecting, and disseminating relevant military curriculum materials to civilian vocational and technical education programs. The bulk of this particular document consists of abstracts of the…