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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED057329 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Guide to Conducting a Consultation on Women's
Employment with Employers and Union Representatives.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1971
NOTE: 19 p.
ABSTRACT: This document reports on a series of business
industry-union consultations initiated and coordinated by
the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. Meetings
five selected cities. These forums were
structured around three main features: (1) a keynote slide
talk, which allowed for speed and effective presentation of
background information concerning
women's employment, (2) a panel of government
representatives, who described Federal, State, and local (if
prohibiting sex discrimination in
employment and wage payments, and (3) a panel of employers
and union representatives, who discussed affirmative action
improving women's job status.
Approximately 770 participants were at the five conferences:
Kansas City, 150 in Detroit, 140 in
Atlanta, and 80 in Boise. Industry representation ranged
from two-fifths to four-fifths of the conferees in all the
cities except Detroit, where it constituted about one-third
constituted the majority of participants
in three cities. These conferences were set up as
demonstration projects. (CK)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Conferences-; Demonstration-Programs;
Employers-; Federal-Government; Feminism-; Industry-; State
Wages-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Consultation-Programs; *Employed-Women;
*Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Guides-
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