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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED162096 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Women in the Labor Force: 1978.
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1978)
NOTE: 33 p.
ABSTRACT: There has been a rapid increase in Mississippi
women's participation in the labor force, but female
participation still lags behind male participation. The
1960s witnessed dramatic increases in younger women's
participation. The trend is expected to continue into the
late 1970s. Annual 1977 averages showed women made up
almost 40% of Mississippi's labor force. The 1977
unemployment insurance data reveals most women claimants
are between twenty-two and thirty-nine. Less than one in
four was hard core (fifteen weeks or longer) unemployed.
Two pieces of legislation have addressed women's employment
rights: the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which created the Equal
Employment Commission to establish sex discrimination
guidelines and the 1963 Equal Pay Act to prohibit pay
discrimination because of sex. Despite Affirmative Action
programs, most women have remained in traditional
occupational categories (e.g., clerical and service work).
There will be over 466,000 available openings in
Mississippi during the 1975 1985 period. White-collar jobs
will account for about 42% of openings, blue-collar
occupations 38%, service workers 14%, and farm workers 5%.
The projected needs of the following occupations have been
analyzed: professional, technical, managers/administrators,
sales workers, clerical, crafts, operatives, service
workers, laborers, and farmers/farm workers. (CSS)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Age-; Career
Opportunities; Census-Figures; Civil-Rights; Economic
Factors; Employment-Opportunities; Federal-Legislation;
Females-; Job-Search-Methods; Labor-Supply; Occupational
Aspiration; Racial-Composition; Sex-Characteristics; Sex
Discrimination; Unemployment-; Unemployment-Insurance;
Wages
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Employed-Women; *Employment-Patterns;
*Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Labor-Demands; *Labor-Force;
*Labor-Market
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