This paper presents a broad overview of affirmative action in the United States, in regard to the provision of equality for Blacks, Hispanics, and women. Section I presents a brief history, while section II summarizes current policies that require or encourage the conscious use of race and sex as a remedial device in allocating jobs or educational…

This report deals with the employment and economic status of Asian and Pacific women in the United States. Data collected for a set of socioeconomic variables were analyzed and interpreted. Variables were analyzed by specific Asian ethnicity and by age. Data aggregated at the standard metropolitan statistical area level were used whenever…

Alternative means of compliance available to organizations to bring their manpower uses into line with existing equal employment legislation are discussed in this paper. The first area addressed concerns the classical approach to selection and placement based on testing methods. The second area discussed reviews various nontesting techniques, such…

Most organizations planning to assess adverse impact or perform a stock analysis for affirmative action planning must correctly classify their jobs into appropriate occupational categories. Two methods of job classification were assessed in a combination archival and field study. Classification results from expert judgment of functional job…

This report is a summary of discussions that took place at the Young Leaders' Forum held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (PEI), on March 9-10, 2007. The event was part of the Rural Dialogue, an on-going, two-way discussion between the Government of Canada and Canadians from rural, remote and northern regions. Launched in 1998, the Rural…

In spite of affirmative action efforts, the percentage of female school administrators has barely risen since 1970. When nearly half of the educational administration students are women who are completing both certification and doctoral programs in record numbers, this seems especially puzzling. As it has become more difficult to blame the…

Support is growing for the concept of the enterprise zone. Congress has before it a bill, the Enterprise Zone Tax Act of 1982, that would provide incentives and create a climate in which entrepreneurs and business executives would locate businesses in areas of pervasive poverty and unemployment. A potential urban enterprise zone in New York City…

Designed to encourage governments to promote the increased employment of professional women in public administration and management, this document provides facts and trends of employment, current policy initiatives, an analysis of barriers and successes, and a list of seminars and training sessions designed to improve opportunities for women to…

An overview of compensatory education programs is presented in this paper. The rationale for compensatory education is outlined, and the early implementation of these projects at the local and national levels is described. Specifically addressed are Project Head Start and Title I programs. The paper also discusses James Coleman's "Equality of…

One of the primary concerns of many of the opponents of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) Amendments of 1978 was the possible adverse effects of the legislation on other labor force subgroups. Although groups such as the NAACP, the Urban League, and the National Organization for Women did not testify directly in opposition to the…

This paper reports the results of an interview survey of 108 Chinese American residents of San Francisco, California's Chinatown. Subjects' attitudes were examined in six areas: quality of life, environment, physical health, mental health, psychological attitudes, and employment. Chinatown residents were found to be two to three times more…

This paper focuses on student perceptions of sociology as a discipline, and the relevancy of course content to career goals and career preparation. The first part of the paper presents a summary of the literature and research on the employment situation in sociology. The summary implies that (1) departments of sociology are overproducing for the…

To provide a definitive and updated view of the woman communicator, specifically in the fields of organizational communication, business communication, and public relations, an analysis was made of data from the 1979 International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) survey. Data for that survey were obtained from the responses of some…

The purposes of this exploratory field study were to discover the utility of career-oriented skills and competencies in speech communication as perceived by representatives from employment agencies, to discover current perceptions of the field by representatives from employment agencies, and to discover the bases for these perceptions. The target…

The Federal Government needs people who can actually communicate in a foreign language, and our academic language programs are not producing such people. To solve this problem, there has to be a change in our basic attitudes and philosophies about language teaching and learning. Language courses must be transformed from passive exercises into…