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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED271851 AUTHOR: Eberts, Randall W.; Stone, Joe A.
TITLE: Sex Differences in Promotions: EEO at Work in Public
Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
NOTE: 29 p.
ABSTRACT: This report investigates six differences in
promotions to administrative positions in elementary and
secondary education and assesses the influence of
affirmative action and equal employment opportunity
enforcement. Conclusions are based on longitudinal data from
Oregon and New York for thousands of individual educators
employed during the 1970's and on data gathered from
discrimination complaints. The study focuses on whether
apparent discrimination exists in the promotion structures
for men and women in public education and whether federal
and state equal employment opportunity and affirmative
action policies have reduced apparent discrimination. The
major finding is that significant apparent discrimination
present in the early 1970's declined by more than half by
the late 1970's and that equal employment opportunity
enforcement contributed to the decline. Interpretations of
the New York results are less conclusive than for Oregon
because only federal Title IX enforcement was implemented in
New York, thereby reducing the availability of complementary
evidence in comparison to Oregon. Section 1 of the study
sets out a model of promotions based on human capital
theory, briefly discusses methods of measuring
discrimination, and offers a framework for analyzing the
influence of equal employment opportunity and affirmative
action policies. Section 2 presents and evaluates the
empirical results for the two states. Section 3 summarizes
the major conclusions. (CJH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Educational-Change; Elementary-Secondary
Education; Employed-Women; Employment-Opportunities;
Government-School-Relationship; Personnel-Policy; Salary
Wage-Differentials; School-Law; Sex-Bias; Sex-Differences
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrator-Selection; *Affirmative
Action; *Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Promotion-Occupational;
*Sex-Discrimination
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