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Weston, Elsie M. – 1976
This publication reviews the status of women in the labor market of Los Angeles County. Some of the topics dealt with include the changes in status that have already occurred, some of the barriers still existing, and projections of women's status in the future. Specific areas explored in this document include women's participation in the work…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Employed Women, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics

Corman, Hope – 1980
The relationships between labor force behavior, marital status and college attendance decisions of women between the ages of 25 and 65 were investigated through a model, empirically tested using ordinary least squares, from the 1975 survey of adult education conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the National Institute of Education. From the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Behavior Patterns, College Attendance
Anderson, Kim; And Others – 1978
The effect of gender on retirement attitudes among college faculty and other university professionals were studied, and variables that might affect attitudes toward retirement were investigated. A 35-item questionnaire was mailed to all faculty and nonteaching professionals at a university center, a four-year college, and a community college of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Females, Higher Education, Males
Sweet, James A. – 1979
Demographic data for Mexican American women and men, displayed in 30 tables accompanied by summaries, indicate changes in the allocation of time between the ages of 18 and 29 over 17 year period from 1960 to 1976. Trends for Mexican American women indicate person years spent single changed from 3.4 in 1960 to 3.6 in 1976, with a sharp increase in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Birth Rate, Demography, Employed Women
Wingate, James G. – 1979
The study described in this report was conducted in order to determine the effects of self concept and selected demographic and economic variables on attrition. Data are drawn from a group of 74 disadvantaged adult students who enrolled in a college preparatory program at the Syracuse Educational Opportunity Center (S.E.O.C.). Demographic…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Age, College Preparation
Barrett, Carol J. – 1978
Previous writers have presumed that widowhood is more stressful for one sex or the other. Hypotheses derived from demographic considerations and sex role developmental theory compared the needs and resources of 147 widows and 42 widowers, relative to 190 married persons. All subjects were non-institutionalized urban residents aged 62 or over. The…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Interpersonal Relationship, Marital Status, Needs
Michelotti, Kopp – 1977
The most recent in an annual series on multiple jobholders, this report shows the number of U.S. workers holding two or more jobs at the same time by industry, occupation, and demographic characteristics, and outlines reasons for holding second jobs. Based primarily on information from the Current Population Survey, conducted and tabulated for the…
Descriptors: Age, Census Figures, Employment Patterns, Employment Statistics
Snyder, Douglas K. – 1978
Marital satisfaction, involving 150 couples selected at-large and 40 couples in therapy, was investigated in two studies. An initial focus was the development of a 280-item Marital Satisfaction Inventory (MSI) including one validity scale, one global affective scale, and nine additional scales focusing on specific areas of marital interaction.…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Rating Scales, Correlation, Interaction Process Analysis
Stafford, Rebecca – 1977
There are four different types of love possible between men and women in the middle years. The type they feel for each other depends not upon their ages but upon whether they are married, whether they have children, and what is happening in their occupational careers. The intense feelings of romantic love are dampened by long association. Conjugal…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Job Satisfaction, Marital Status, Marriage
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1975
Fifty-six charts present data on the characteristics of American working women and their changing status over the past 25 years. The major data source is the Current Population Survey conducted monthly for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Bureau of Census. Part 1 provides information on employment and unemployment. In January 1975 some 36 and…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Charts, Educational Background, Employed Women
Shea, John R. – 1972
Barriers to the labor force participation of women, particularly in low-income families, are examined in this paper. Reactions of nonworking mothers with dependent children to a hypothetical job offer are analyzed from data obtained in 1967 as part of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Behavior. Multiple regression analysis shows…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Labor Force Nonparticipants, Labor Market, Marital Status
Bigsby, Robert A.; Clark, Harry E. – 1970
The Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School Program in 27 Oregon counties was studied (1) to assess the effectiveness of the program in aiding enrollees (school dropouts aged 16-21) to obtain productive jobs and/or to continue their education and (2) to identify socioeconomic and educational factors associated with success or failure in the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities
Reutter, E. Edmund, Jr. – 1970
This monograph reviews and analyzes relevant decisions dealing with the control of student activities by public school authorities. The report focuses on recent court cases that reaffirm, amplify, or extend entrenched constitutional and common law principles undergirding the public educational system in the United States. After setting the legal…
Descriptors: Activism, Court Litigation, Discipline Policy, Freedom of Speech
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. Div. of Labor Force Studies. – 1974
Statistics on job tenure of American workers are presented which are based on a January, 1973, survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census. Three tables are presented: length of employment of workers on their current job, by sex; median years on current job, by sex, age, and race; and median years on current job, by occupation, industry, and sex.…
Descriptors: Age, Employment Statistics, Females, Labor Turnover
Gramm, Wendy Lee – 1971
We analyze the labor supply decision of married women, husband present, qualified to teach school. We are especially concerned with how the ages of children in the family affect the wife's supply of labor over time. We develop a utility-maximizing model of the household where household utility (a function of total consumption, leisure of the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Research, Employed Women