The principal objectives of this paper were to identify variations in the quality of a worker's employment in explaining the sources of job satisfaction and their applicability to subsamples of the workforce. More importantly, utilizing racially distinct subsamples allowed for the results to suggest which of two traditional approaches for…

With a sample of 168 educable mentally retarded adolescents, the authors used an interview technique and a battery of standardized instruments to ascertain sex and racial differences. Significant sex and/or racial differences were found in vocational interest areas, motor skills, achievement levels, and mechanical aptitude. Recommended were…

Differences between the earnings of men and women suggest that women are being paid less for doing the same job. Factors that attribute to the wage differences are (1) women are concentrated in those occupations which are less skilled and in which wages are relatively low, (2) women working on full-time schedules tend to work less overtime than…

Findings indicate that societal changes in the opportunity structure have had some limited impact on black men, but have not yet materially affected women. The key component in understanding mobility orientations is level of aspiration, a variable closely related to sex-race characteristics. (Author/AM)

Findings show that high school males are more sexist than females; and blacks, more so that whites. Women who are bright, from upper class backgrounds, and whose mothers work are more egalitarian in sex role conceptions. Unlike women, men's sex role attitudes have little connection to their family background. (Author/MV)

The variety in female experience is examined, leading to the conclusion that it is not something fundamentally different from that of males. It is argued that this means that all facets of social change have different meanings according to class, race, and sex. These meanings carry implications for curricular changes. (Author/GC)

Variables affecting intelligence test performance were investigated for black and white female secondary school students. Test atmosphere (evaluative or gamelike), tester expectation, and socioeconomic status of subject interacted significantly with race of subject in determining mean IQ. Subjects generally performed better with female examiners.…

Investigating black-white differences in job shifts, this analysis is based on panel data and examination of the following: whether a person intended to quit; whether he actually quit his job; and whether he was involuntarily dismissed. Variables examined include: job income, education level, age, marital status, and job holder's number of…

Subjects rated an individual described as either male or female, white or native Indian who chose an upwardly or downwardly mobile occupation (teacher or store clerk). Female characters were rated less likely to succeed. Male subjects were more surprised at male, but not female, character's choice of downwardly mobile career. (Author)

This article examines the language needs of culturally different clients from a Black perspective, discusses the problems of languages-in-contact, and presents specific ways for teachers to improve the language competencies of Black students. (Author/HMV)

The 26,316 patients who entered drug therapy programs participating in the DARP from June, 1971, to March, 1973, and who had used drugs for at least two years were grouped into three drug use categories. Differences were observed among these three groups regarding the first drug used daily and the age at first drug use. (Author)

Compared black (N=614) and white (N=1,162) children on the Behavior Problem Checklist. Blacks were judged to have a greater frequency of behavior disorders than whites. A number of interactions of race with other variables were found, and their meanings are discussed. (Author)

Analyzes the relationship between education and labor market activity and examines differences in educational attainment among the various demographic groups in the labor force as well as among the major regions of the country. (TA)

The autonomous and social comparison achievement motivation of 197 black and white children was assessed at the end of first or fourth grades and again at the end of second and fifth grades. Level of aspiration and projective story telling measures of motivation were used. (Author/JMB)

This paper examines sex differences on the Franks-Marolla Semantic Differential measure of self-esteem and raises questions about the meaning of such differences for theoretical and experimental studies of self-esteem. Subjects were 442 sixth-through eighth-grade students. (BD)