The Modern Language Association is finally opening its doors to professional women and their demands for reform. (HS)

Management must instigate an open promotional policy; give women employees professional training; actively recruit women for professional jobs; and publicly state the organization's policy of non-discriminiation. (Editor/AS)

A sports columnist acclaims the employment of girls at race tracks as grooms, exercise boys, and hot walkers." (Author)

The differential is large: on average, women earn only 60 percent as much as men. (Editor)

Responses to a questionnaire sent to more than 800 women members of the American Society for Training and Development showed clear affirmation of work-related discrimination. (EB)

Reports recent research indicating that children of working mothers do as well in school as the children of mothers who stay at home. (RH)

Unemployed women substantially reduce their reservation wages as the period of their unemployment progresses. Also, recipients of unemployment insurance are shown to ask for wages that are substantially higher than those asked for by other unemployed women. (CT)

The Dulais Opportunities for Voluntary Enterprise project in Wales benefited from European Community initiatives in a number of ways: (1) European Social Fund support enabled focus on women-specific training; (2) IRIS, the European Network on Women's Training, enabled transnational exchange visits; and (3) ideas about embedding guidance and…

Examines pattern of changes in human service occupations, particularly those in which women predominate. Contends occupational trends of middle- and upper-class women may have far-reaching consequences for organized social service professions. Concludes that giving up the idea that women have primary responsibility for care and nurturance in…

Analyzed determinants of wives' perceptions of fairness of division of household labor. Data from 1988 National Survey of Families and Households indicated that husbands' contributions to "female" tasks and appreciation of women's household labor were most important determinants of wives' perceptions of fairness, with strength of…

Assistant vice president for academic personnel at public university took notes on incidents that caused participants to laugh during meetings of academic managers between 1988 and 1993. Recorded percentages of males and females in attendance, who conducted meeting, and who initiated laughter. Found differences in how men and women used humor to…

A survey of 202 Massachusetts union leaders received 94 responses indicating that women are overrepresented as union secretaries and underrepresented as presidents. They rarely chair grievance or negotiation committees. Both male and female leaders would like to see more women leaders, but males felt that women's issues were adequately represented…