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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED176005 AUTHOR: Huelsman, B. Ryle
TITLE: Womanpower in the United States and in Kentucky.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 57 p.
ABSTRACT: By 1975, the Kentucky and United States female
labor force participation rates were both 41 percent.
Although pre-World War II data are lacking for the
Commonwealth, it was not until 1950 that the labor force
participation rate for Kentucky women reached 20.4 percent,
a figure achieved nationally as early as 1920. The
distribution of women to men varies enormously among the
more than 420 separate occupations recognized by the United
States Census. Technological change, a type of culture
change that is very rapid, has characterized the American
occupational scene in the second half of this century. In
the 1940s and 1950s, automated data processing required
larger staffs of analysts, programmers and clerical
helpers.
Many of the last group were--and are--women workers. Also,
the 1970s Affirmative Action programs may be acting as
catalysts to increase the numbers of women entering certain
occupations. In regard to the seven selected broad
occupational groups, there are structural patterns emergent
in female-intensivity. While elementary school teaching and
librarianship no longer afford promising careers with many
job openings for the foreseeable future, the broad group of
service workers, particularly in the health services, is
becoming increasingly composed of women. Clerical workers
constitute the fastest-growing of the broad occupational
groups, with ever-higher percentages of women entering the
office work force. (JH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Employment-Statistics; Labor-Utilization;
Occupational-Clusters; Research-Reports
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Employment-Opportunities; *Employment
Patterns; *Females-; *Labor-Force
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