Provides a comprehensive look at female work-related injuries and illnesses by occupation, industry, and specific characteristic of the injury. Most injury cases were accounted for by younger women employed in manufacturing industries. Women in traditionally male-dominated jobs suffer the same injuries with the same frequency as their male…

During the 1970s the most important shift in the distribution of the sexes by occupation was the larger female representation among managers; the proportion of specific occupations that were male-dominated declined, but the share that were female-intensive remained the same. (Author/SK)

Lower pay of former temporary employees and higher pay of men formerly self-employed are likely caused by unobserved heterogeneity, according to 15 years of National Longitudinal Survey data. In wage growth models that eliminate this bias, past part-time work has a negative effect on current wages, which vary with gender and whether part-time…

This discussion on the lack of data concerning comparable worth concludes that efforts to design data collecting systems or even to tabulate and amass those data that already exist lag behind efforts to litigate and legislate comparable worth. The author discusses possible future scenarios on this subject. (CT)

Changes in the labor force include higher labor force participation rate for female college graduates, especially Black women; a majority of workers in managerial occupations are college graduates; advanced degrees are required more and more for professional status; more women are in nontraditional occupations; and there are high proportions of…

A survey of postwar recessions shows that the increasing proportion of service sector jobs has moderated overall employment declines and that women in nontraditional jobs, Blacks, and youths bear a disproportionate share of job losses. (LRA)