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Direct linkMullaney, Marie Marmo; Hilbert, Rosemary C. – History of Education Quarterly, 2018
Established in 1911 as a simple owner-operated commercial school in Providence, Rhode Island, the Katharine Gibbs School expanded over the decades to acquire an international reputation for excellence in secretarial training. This essay examines the origin, development, and ultimate demise of the chain, placing it within the context of the…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Females, Office Occupations, Gender Bias
Weer, Christy H.; Greenhaus, Jeffrey H.; Linnehan, Frank – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
An extensive commitment to nonwork roles was negatively associated with the job performance of 182 women legal secretaries. In addition to its direct negative effect on job performance, nonwork role commitment had both a negative indirect effect (through emotional energy expended on nonwork roles) and a positive indirect effect (through resources…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Conflict, Enrichment, Females
Download full textCarnevale, Anthony P.; Rose, Stephen J. – 1998
A study tracing the United States economy over the last 40 years reports the skills needed in the changing economy around the turn of the 21st century. Data sources were the March Annual Demographic files of the Current Population Survey for 1970, 1980, 1990, and 1996, and the Public Microdata Sample of the 1960 Census. The study notes the rise of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Business Administration, Clerical Occupations, College Graduates
Herlihy, Lester B. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
This bulletin is the eighth compilation of statistics on private commercial and business schools made by the Office of Education since 1900. The seventh, or preceding report, on this field of education was published for the year 1929. The effect of the economic situation on private commercial and business schools has been to reduce their…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, School Statistics, Questionnaires
