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Vetter, Betty M.; Babco, Eleanor L. – 1984
This book is designed to provide current and historical statistics about the professional segment of the population and particularly the participation and availability of women and minorities. Over 200 data sources were used to prepare the statistical tables and charts. The first five chapters focus on general enrollments, general degrees, general…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Enrollment, Labor Force, Minority Groups

Shank, Susan E. – Monthly Labor Review, 1986
The author examines the data on workweek preferences and finds only moderate support for the hypothesis underlying the "backward bending labor supply curve," according to which an increase in rates of pay past a certain point induces workers to reduce their hours of work. (CT)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Employed Women, Full Time Equivalency, Income

Allen, Walter R. – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1979
The occupational status attainments of Black women are significantly lower than those of White women and Black and White men. However, their achievement orientations are not noticeably different. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Employed Women, Family Structure, Income
Center for Rural Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. – 2000
Pennsylvania has the largest rural population in the nation, and more than 50 percent of this population is female. Overall, Pennsylvania's rural women are doing well in education, family life stability, and health, relative to comparison groups of rural men and urban women and men. Educational attainment is greater among urban women and men, but…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Attainment, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
National Committee on Pay Equity, Washington, DC. – 1990
Women have made slow, steady progress in the labor market since 1979, but the wage gap has not narrowed significantly. This briefing paper updates a September 1987 paper based on "Male-Female Differences in Work Experience, Occupations, and Earnings: 1984" (Current Population Reports, Household Economic Studies, Series P-70, No. 10, issued in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Economic Research, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Mathis, Patricia A.; Prokop, Ruth T. – 1981
This report represents the culmination of a year-long evaluation of the nature and extent of sexual harassment in the federal government. The various chapters explore the: (1) attitudes of federal employees toward sexual harassment; (2) extent of sexual harassment in the federal workplace; (3) characteristics of victims and perpetrators of sexual…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Federal Government, Government Employees
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1984
As this report illustrates, nearly one in four adult workers today has completed college, while in 1970 just one in seven had as much formal schooling. This growth, together with the higher labor force participation rates of college graduates, has generated significant increases in the college-educated work force. Other factors include women's…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Career Education, College Graduates
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1998
Although the gap between women's and men's wages differs slightly depending on how the gap is measured, no matter how they are measured, women's earnings are below those received by men in 97% of the occupations for which data are available. Since 1979, women's earnings have been climbing when compared with men's earnings, gaining steeply during…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
Dion, Mavis Jackson – 1984
Using data from the 1980 census and earlier censuses this booklet briefly profiles women in the American population and the changes in their educational levels, workforce participation, income levels, marital status, and roles as mothers. Graphs are used throughout to highlight these changes. Census figures indicate that women are now the majority…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Educational Attainment, Employed Women
Mikulecky, Larry J.; And Others – 1979
This monograph contains a discussion of a telephone survey conducted to gain more knowledge about the job-related reading, functional reading, and leisure reading habits of a representative sample of adults from Anderson, Indiana. The discussion highlights survey results by demographic variables, reports specific analyses of survey items, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Employed Women
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. – 1973
The 1970 United States census counted a female population of 104,299,734. Of all the nations in the world, only three have larger female populations: China, India, and the Soviet Union. Females made up 51.3 percent of the United States population. Over 70 million American women are of voting age--that's nearly seven million more than the number of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Census Figures, College Attendance, Demography

White, Karen; Baker, Barbara – 1984
This data book uses survey and census information to record social and economic changes of the past three decades and their effects upon the role of Alaska women in society. Results show Alaska women comprise 47% of the state population, an increase of 9% since 1950. Marriage continues as the predominant living arrangement for Alaska women,…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Birth Rate, Census Figures, Demography
Geis, Sonia; Klein, Steven G.; Caroll, C. Dennis – 1997
Data from the 1980 Sophomore Cohort of the High School and Beyond (HS&B) study were used to examine the stability of the first employment experiences of high school diploma, associate's degree, and Bachelor's degree recipients. Approximately 51% of the original HS&B sophomore cohort were included in the study. Data used in the study were…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Employed Women, Employment Experience
Crowley, Michael F.; And Others – 1982
Congress, as part of the Fiscal Year 1981 National Science Foundation Authorization Act (Public Law 96-516), called for the Director of the National Science Foundation to transmit to the Congress and certain Federal agencies a biennial statistical report on the participation of women and minorities in science and engineering employment and…
Descriptors: College Science, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Engineering
Smith, Kevin B.; Ohlendorf, George W. – 1975
Changes in marital and procreative projections among rural Louisiana high school youth between 1968 and 1972 were examined. In 1968 a proportionate, stratified, random cluster sampling technique was employed to secure data on seniors from 13 white and 7 black high schools. In 1972 public school integration and the establishment of private schools…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitude Change, Blacks, Children
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