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Niemi, Nancy S., Ed.; Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2020
With this enlightening handbook, you can review the thinking of leading researchers on the current intersection of gender and higher education. "The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education" provides an in-depth look at education's complicated relationships with, and in some cases inadequate fostering of, gender equity. The…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Higher Education, STEM Education
Smith, James P. – 1985
The typical working woman is thought to make 60% of a man's wage, despite increased job skills. Facts prove this perception incorrect. Lack of progress is an artifact of changing labor market characteristics associated with the rapid growth in the numbers of women in the labor market. Low skills, low wage female entrants tend to hold down the…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employment, Employment Experience
Beresford, Jack; Ellis, Diane C. – 1978
In 1970 there were about 68,000 persons of minority, racial, and ethnic background who had occupations as actors, architects, authors, dancers, designers, musicians, composers, painters, scupltors, photographers, radio and television announcers, university teachers of art, music, or drama, and other types of artists and entertainers. In this…
Descriptors: American Indians, Art Activities, Artists, Asian Americans
Gwartney-Gibbs, Patricia A. – 1981
A study examined the length and characteristics of women's lifetime work experience. The principal data source for the survey was a set of detailed work, educational, marital, and fertility histories that were collected in the fall of 1979 from 314 couples in the Detroit metropolitan area. While prior researchers had relied upon measures of the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Employed Parents, Employment Level, Employment Patterns

Van House, Nancy A. – Library Quarterly, 1986
Identifies determinants of librarians' salaries and tests human capital-based explanations of librarianship as a woman's profession. Earnings functions are developed for men and women in public and academic libraries and for women in school libraries, and personal, human capital, and job determinants of salaries are identified. Thirty-one…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Females, Librarians, Library Science
Taeuber, Cynthia M.; Valdisera, Victor – Current Population Reports, 1986
Trends in the economic status of women in the United States and their implications for society and women themselves are traced in this publication. The report focuses on women in the work force, including occupation and wage gains relative to men; poverty status; economic consequence of changes in trends related to living arrangements, education,…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Economic Status, Educational Status Comparison, Employed Parents
Levy, Frank; Michel, Richard C. – 1988
This paper examines the growing college premium for younger men and the earnings patterns for other groups that developed between 1973 and 1987. At first glance, the rapidly increasing college premium for young men seems to confirm several frequently cited economic trends, including a massive restructuring of the economy that displaces all less…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Business Cycles, College Graduates, Economic Factors
Marks, Joseph L.; Diaz, Alicia A. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
The "Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fact Book on Higher Education" is one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education. For decades, state leaders, policy-makers, researchers and journalists have used the "Fact Book" to find useful data quickly--and to learn more about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Technical Institutes, Tuition
Reskin, Barbara F., Ed.; Hartmann, Heidi I., Ed. – 1986
The literature on sex segregation in the workplace was reviewed to determine how it could be used in formulating policy in the area of sex fairness in the American labor market. The committee found that although women's occupational options have increased dramatically in the past decade, sex segregation is still widespread. Among those factors…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices