While Allan Bakke "won" his challenge, so did proponents of affirmative action. The solid foundation for affirmative action laid in the Bakke case should apply to sex as well as to race discrimination, and to employment as well as to university admissions. (Author/MC)

This paper describes the background, execution, and outcomes of the first year of an affirmative action training program for managers and supervisors in city government. Available from: JABS Order Dept., NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, P.O. Box 9155, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, Virginia 22209. (Author)

Notes that the affirmative action effort has taken longer than five years to empirically reduce sex and racial discriminatory practices in higher education, the enforcement effort has been slow, and higher education has stopped growing. (Author/JP)

Major headings in this review of 1974-75 labor relations and employment discrimination law include Unfair Labor Practices, Arbitration, Seniority, Sex Discrimination, Affirmative Action Under Title VII, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Enforcement Powers under Section 706, and Federal Employment--Judicial Application of Section 717. (JT)

Notes that Borgatta is not overly concerned about the discrimination that forms the background to current efforts at cultural recompense for historic exclusion and neglect of disadvantaged groups. (Author/AM)

Applies organizational theory and Lewin's concept of the life space in order to clarify factors that contribute to women's remaining predominantly marginal despite universities' official commitment to equal opportunity. Recommends changes in the structure of academe; suggests ways to strengthen affirmative action programs and better integrate…

Provides an overview of controversies over the legality of employment quotas. Asserts that the realities of human relationships (which form a metaphorical "web") cannot always be recognized and considered by the courts (which operate as a metaphorical "ladder"). (KH)

Discusses the aggressive recruitment of women by engineering schools and firms, progress in eliminating sex discrimination barriers, and lingering sex bias problems in the field. Offers suggestions to new women engineering graduates. (SK)

The regulatory programs of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs have been improved by close cooperation with other federal organizations and private groups or agencies interested in training, employment, and equal opportunity. (RLV)

Suggests that organizations, instead of forcing women into the common mold, ought to institute policies recognizing that each person contributes uniqueness that can enhance the corporation. (Author/JM)

Major labor cases decided during 1976 did not project a clear or simple path for further Constitutional and statutory interpretation, but the year's labor decisions did reveal a new willingness on the part of the U.S. Supreme Court to depart from earlier views of Constitutional law. (JT)

Reviews actions by government agencies, courts and private agencies, having to do with racial and sexual discrimination in education, school integration, discrimination in teacher salaries, affirmative action to increase the number of professional women in environmental health, engineering and science. Also reviews publications in these areas. (JM)

Discusses the ineffectiveness of affirmative action in higher education to bring about social change due to lack of implementation and enforcement. Explores the present status of Black women in higher education and future prospects if significant policy changes do not occur. (JS)

A supporter of affirmative action in California sees attackers as mean-spirited and practicing wedge politics. He stresses its legality and opposes a proposed California Civil Rights initiative. An opponent criticizes affirmative action, noting practical difficulties in application and its opposition to American values of fairness. He defends the…