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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED278746 AUTHOR: Escutia, Marta M.; Prieto, Margarita
TITLE: Hispanics in the Work Force, Part II: Hispanic Women.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1986
NOTE: 30 p.; For Parts I and III, see UD 025 323 and UD 025
325.
AVAILABILITY: National Council of La Raza, 20 F Street, NW,
Second Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 ($2.50; all three
parts, $7.00).
ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates the status of Hispanic women
in the United States work force. First, demographic
information on age patterns, fertility rates, and
educational attainment is reviewed. Then, labor market
status is assessed in relation to Hispanic women's labor
force participation, employment patterns, and poverty. Next,
the Federal response to these problems is evaluated and
policy implications are discussed. The status of Hispanic
women in the labor force is characterized by low educational
attainment, occupational segregation in the least skilled
jobs, low wages, and high levels of unemployment and
poverty. This segregation results from the educational
attainment of Hispanic women, which is the lowest of all
population groups. In contrast to the training programs
offered by the terminated Comprehensive Employment and
Training Act, the current Job Training Partnership Act
offers limited hope for improving the long-term market
status of Hispanic women. The elimination of the
occupational segregation of Hispanic women is dependent on
Federal policies which support their training and on
initiatives, such as pay equity and affirmative action,
which would counter the pervasiveness of sex-based wage
discrimination. Tables and bar graphs are included. (KH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Educational-Attainment; Job-Training; Labor
Force; Labor-Force-Nonparticipants; Minority-Groups; Sex
Discrimination; Socioeconomic-Status
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Employment-Statistics; *Federal-Programs;
*Females-; *Hispanic-Americans; *Unemployment-
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