Despite some progress, women still hold less than 5% of top corporate jobs worldwide and nearly always earn less. Women's share of management jobs rarely exceeds 20% in a cross-national comparison. (JOW)

Provides a framework for student personnel workers to use in evaluating how their various needs, values, personality characteristics, and lifestyles might fit with administrative positions. Compares administrative and line positions. Recommends line professionals consider the issues before shifting to administration. (Author/ABL)

Compares the skills of student affairs personnel to those required in other management jobs. Notes that many individuals choose or are forced to leave student affairs field at mid-career and examines reasons why this occurs. Suggests that student affairs education and experience can have salutary effects even if an individual leaves the field.…

Interviews were conducted with five Black women who work for corporations to ascertain how they "play the game." They agreed that flexibility and restraint are needed to progress and be successful in the corporate world. Also, Black businesswomen should not lose sight of themselves and where they came from. (VM)

Many technically-trained managers become stranded halfway up the corporate chain of advancement at mid-career. This article discusses efforts companies may take to open new pathways for these individuals. (Author/RE)

The New York State Division of Budget uses a decentralized system to assess promotion candidates by comparing their training, experience, and recent performance to the proposed position. Managers and candidates find the system more effective than traditional written/oral exams. (SK)

A study analyzed the likelihood and the meaning of a promotion among working women aged 37-48 in 1991. The study used data from the Young Women's cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys (a sample of women who were aged 14-25 in 1968 and who have been interviewed regularly since that year). In 1991, the survey asked working women whether a…

Barriers to equal occupational opportunities for minorities are examined at three stages of the employment process: the job candidate stage, the job entry stage, and the job promotion stage. (PS)

A review of more than 250 grievances brought by academic women against their employers suggests that, although few suits have been won in the courts, the efforts have served to sensitize academic institutions and open doors to other women. (Author/GC)

Examines areas of controversy and consistency in recent Supreme Court opinions on these civil rights issues: (1) employee testing, selection, and assignment; (2) advanced training, promotion and salary; and (3) dismissal and seniority. (Author/GC)

Faculty women have had limited success in winning redress for employment discrimination in hiring, salary, promotion, and tenure. The burdens in time and money faced by those seeking remedies make litigation accessible to only a few, leaving internal institutional reform as the only means of moving toward sex equity. (Author/GC)

Examines the role of the archivist and of the curator, the nature of their work, working conditions, number of people employed in these occupations, required training, other qualifications, possibilities for advancement, job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and sources of additional information. (CT)

Suggests that computer expertise is becoming an irrepressible force in the business environment and that the ability to use a personal computer may be a key to success for young executives in the 1980's. (Author/JN)

This paper presents empirical documentation on the under-representation of women partners in public accounting firms and of women full professors in academia. Arguments are based on results of a cohort model which examined women's careers from the time they entered a profession until the time they should have been promoted to either partner or…

This paper reviews the effects of affirmative action on administrative policy in higher education. The history of the Federal mandate against ethnic and sex discrimination is traced, and several court cases are reviewed. Examples of discriminatory admission and employment practices in higher education as reflected in pattern, class and individual…