Summarizes data on the numbers of women and minority engineers, including Black, Spanish surnamed, Oriental, American Indian, and disadvantaged groups. Indicates taht their future prospects will become even brighter, but problems of attracting more women and Blacks into engineering are significantly greater than in cases of other minority groups.…

Burns and Haga's critique of the "shopping list" characterization of professions (1977) is examined, and an alternative analysis is proposed and applied to management accounting. According to Burns and Haga, a field is regarded as a profession if it serves needs recognizable within the society as crucial and is imbued with substantial…

This paper reports on two processes used to begin a long-term series of studies on educational power structures in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Purposes of the study were to determine if (1) substrata or pools of power undergird educational power structures, (2) certain paths to power are…

A human ecology theoretical framework for the study of sexual differentiation in metropolitan area professional occupations is presented in this paper. Human ecology theory attempts to describe characteristics of organizations for a population as a whole. Differences in the characteristics of organizations among populations represent the…

This paper examines: (1) selected aspects of the current status of women at the top of the hierarchies in the three health professions of dentistry, medicine, and veterinary medicine, and (2) some of the effects of the changing structure of the health care system on the present and future roles of the women in each of these professions. Besides…

A report is given of a Northeast Ohio recruitment project to develop and test methods and material for use in sparking interest in library science among college upperclassmen and graduates looking for new careers. Two of the approaches utilized are: (1) counseling of individuals attracted to library careers and (2) mass publicity via direct mail,…

This study investigated the relative rewards and costs of parenthood and working as perceived by 63 professional and 60 nonprofessional women between the ages of 28 and 39 who were childless, had small families, or had large families. A social exchange theory was suggested as the general theoretical framework for the study. The overall pattern of…

This survey was designed to measure the level of professional development of student financial aid administrators; their academic background, their professional characteristics, and their needs for future development. A questionnaire was mailed to student aid administrators at 600 institutions of higher education located in nine southern states. A…

Whether linguistics is a scientific study is reviewed in the light of what linguists actually do professionally. Personal anecdotes illustrate the linguist's view of speech as the dominant language force and language as the vehicle of social interaction and communication. The work of George K. Zipf is commented on, and Morris Bishop's poem "The…

This three-point classification scheme reflects the socioeconomic status of the child's family. The teacher classifies each student according to the father's occupation: professional, skilled, or unskilled. Detailed guidelines for classification are included. Studies in which this scheme was used are listed. (MS)

This report is divided into five major sections. The first, called "Significant Economic Indicators," is concerned with trends in series of data which measure the condition of the national economy. It includes national income and product tables, manpower output, employment and unemployment, consumer prices, and data on family budgets. Section II…

This report gives a detailed picture of engineering and technology graduates for the 1970-71 academic year. Part I summarizes the placement status of engineering graduates at the bachelor's, mater's and doctor's levels, and technology graduates at the associate degree and bachelor's levels. Placement data are provided for graduates since 1958,…

Describes an introductory course that provides a qualitative description of chemical engineering and the scope of professional activities of the chemical engineer. (MLH)

Describes the program being established by the American Institute of Chemists for certification of chemists and chemical engineers. (SL)

Affirmative action programs notwithstanding, the number of women in authority positions in public education is declining. (MJB)