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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED227336 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Equal Employment Opportunity for Women: U.S.
Policies. United States Report for the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Working Party
Number 6 on the Role of Women in the Economy (Paris, France,
June 1982).
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1982
NOTE: 51 p.; Presented at the meeting of the Manpower and
Social Affairs Committee's Working Party Number 6 on the
Role of Women in the Economy, sponsored by the Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris, France,
June 1982).
AVAILABILITY: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
ABSTRACT: A study analyzed past and present United States
initiatives for promoting equal employment opportunity and
wage equality for women. It was determined that, during the
past 20 years, the United States Government has established
the legal procedures to combat inequities in educational
opportunities and employment-related practices. While these
procedures have effected some improvements, the problems of
occupational segregation and its resultant lower earnings
for women persist. Other issues affecting the full
utilization of women in the work force include protective
labor legislation, inequities in education, lack of adequate
child care, lack of adequate alternative work patterns, the
scope of unemployment, involuntary part-time employment, and
limited unemployment assistance. Despite outreach efforts to
groups with special needs, such as migrant and seasonal
farmworkers and minority women, members of these groups
continue to lag behind their white counterparts in most
socioeconomic areas. Analysis of the effectiveness of equal
opportunity initiatives reveals that, for the future,
equality for women in the workplace will depend on continued
reduction of occupational segregation of women. (The second
half of this report consists of 18 tables of data.) (MN)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Agency-Cooperation;
Blacks-; Coordination-; Day-Care; Economic-Factors;
Educational-Discrimination; Educational-Opportunities;
Employment-Practices; Federal-Legislation; Financial
Support; Flexible-Working-Hours; Hispanic-Americans;
Individual-Needs; Labor-Force; Labor-Force-Nonparticipants;
Labor-Legislation; Migrant-Workers; Outreach-Programs;
Public-Agencies; Seasonal-Employment; Sex-Discrimination;
Trend-Analysis; Underemployment-; Unemployment-;
Unemployment-Insurance
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Employment-Opportunities; *Equal
Opportunities-Jobs; *Females-; *Program-Effectiveness;
*Public-Policy; *Salary-Wage-Differentials
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