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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED188697 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Affirmative Action: A Responsible Management
Approach. A Conference Sponsored by Hagerstown Junior
College in Cooperation with the Maryland State Board for
Community Colleges (Hagerstown, Maryland, April 25, 1980).
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1980
NOTE: 28 p.
ABSTRACT: In April 1980, a conference dealing with sex
equity issues and employment was co-sponsored by Hagerstown
Junior College and the Maryland State Board of Education.
The first keynote speaker was Marian Lang, who works with
Black and Decker, Inc. facilities nationwide on the issues
and problems of affirmative action. Her presentation began
with a statistical review of the number of women in the
workforce. She then examined the low earning profile of
women compared to men, the historical and psychological
reasons for this lag, the education needed by both men and
women to correct this problem, and the steps management can
take to review and improve sex equity within their own
companies. The second keynote speaker was Fred Gross, Vice
President for Personnel at American Health and Life
Insurance Company. Mr. Gross examined the stereotype of the
passive, dependent woman and discussed the need for
managers to confront and dispel such attitudes among
themselves. The conference report includes an agenda,
outlines of both keynote presentations, and a summary of
the discussions that occurred in group sessions, concerning
women's commitment to the job, their methods of coping with
insecurity, their views of business, the societal
restraints which keep women from advancement, and the male
cliques within management structures which hinder women's
participation in decision making. (JP)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Attitude-Change; Employer-Attitudes;
Employment-Level; Females-; Salaries-; Sex-Bias; Sex
Differences; Sex-Stereotypes
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Employed-Women;
*Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Sex-Fairness
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