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Fromont, Michel; And Others – World of Work, 1994
Includes "Fighting for Equality on All Fronts" (Fromont); "Three Questions for Mrs. Lucille Caron"; "Women Shoulder the Burden of Cambodia's Economy" (Roess); and "Renewing Their Relationship with the Land" (Mehra-Kerpelman). (SK)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Farm Labor, Foreign Countries
Download full textWomen's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1990
This information sheet presents 20 facts on women workers in 1989: (1) 56 million women 16 years of age and over are working or looking for work; (2) 69 percent of all women 18 to 64 years of age are in the civilian labor force; (3) most women workers are employed full time; (4) the average women worker spends 29.3 years of her life in the labor…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment Statistics, Heads of Households
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1988
This fact sheet lists 20 interpreted statistics on women workers. The facts cover the following data: number of women workers and their percentage in the labor force; length of time women are expected to stay in the labor force; racial and ethnic groups in the labor force; part-time and full-time employment; types of occupations in which women are…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Demography, Employed Women
Loutfi, Martha Fetherolf; And Others – Women at Work, 1980
Examines and analyzes some basic questions on women's place in the process of development. Outlines the low position women occupy in various economies in the developing world which makes them the most underprivileged group of workers. (JOW)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Developing Nations, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Smith, Michal – State Government News, 1987
Without an increase in five years, minimum wage workers, 60 percent of whom are women, have experienced a sharp decline in real earnings. Over seventeen million Americans fall outside the federal provision and rely on inadequate state standards. Overtime and tipping laws are discussed. Social costs of maintaining the "working poor" outweigh…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Peer reviewedWoody, Bette – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1989
Examines the impact of a services economy on the work and income of Black women in relation to current labor theory, employment patterns of Black and White women, and future policy implications. Discusses the growing feminization of poverty as the product of a growing subculture of low-wage work. (JS)
Descriptors: Blacks, Business Cycles, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women
National Commission on Working Women, Washington, DC. – 1988
These four fact sheets address a number of issues relating to women in the work force. The first, "An Overview of Women in the Work Force," offers a look at the numbers of women in the labor force, the occupational categories represented by women workers, women in professional and nonprofessional occupations, and women in nontraditional…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Career Education, Clerical Occupations
