American Women Workers in a Full Employment Economy: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, September 16, 1977United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 71 páginas |
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administration agencies bill child Civil Rights compendium CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Department of Labor earnings effect employed women employers employment problems enter the labor equal employment opportunity equal opportunity Equal Pay Act Equal Rights Amendment expectations experience fact families Federal female feminist feminist economic Full Employment Economy future labor force groups HEAGSTEDT higher homemakers income increase Isabel Sawhill Joint Economic Committee labor force participation labor force withdrawal labor market lack laws legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Macleod male Manpower ment National Organization numbers of women older women opportunity for women Organization for Women paid labor force percent position of women President problems of women programs SANDELL Sawhill Senator Javits Senator MCCLURE sex discrimination skills social specific Statistics status of women subcommittee Task Force tion U.S. Department unemployed unemployment rate union address wage gap woman women entrepreneurs Women's Bureau
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Página 70 - ... unemployment returning again to plague us after so many repetitions during the century past is a sign of deep failure in our country. Unemployment is the great peacetime physical tragedy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and both in its cause and in the imprint it leaves upon those who inflict it, those who permit it. and those who are its victims, it is one of the great moral tragedies of our time.
Página 66 - ... equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions...
Página 10 - What would you like to be doing when you are 35 years old?" It also provides the actual labor market status of women 30 to 44 years of age. Young women are categorized by expected education and older women by actual education completed at the time of the survey.
Página 30 - We must face accomplished facts, and the adjustment of factory conditions must be made, but surely it can be made with less friction and less harmful effects on family life than is now the case. This whole matter in reality forms one of the greatest sociological phenomena of our time ; it is a social question of the first importance, of far greater importance than any merely political or economic question can be, and to solve it we need ample data, gathered in a sane and scientific spirit in the...
Página 30 - The department of commerce and labor should also make a thorough investigation of the conditions of women in industry. Over five million American women are now engaged in gainful occupations; yet there is an almost complete dearth of data upon which to base any trustworthy conclusions as regards a subject as important as it is vast- and complicated. There is need of full knowledge on which to base action looking toward state and municipal legislation lor the protection of working women.
Página 23 - Act of 1964 with the same vigor as it enforces the prohibitions against racial discrimination. III That women be protected by law to ensure their rights to return to their jobs within a reasonable time after childbirth without loss of seniority or other accrued benefits, and be paid maternity leave...
Página 24 - The right of women in poverty to secure job training, housing and family allowances on equal terms with men...
Página 24 - That child-care facilities be established by law on the same basis as parks, libraries, and public schools, adequate to the needs of children from the pre-school years through adolescence, as a community resource to be used by all citizens from all income levels. VI.
Página 24 - Child Day Care Centers" as its fifth demand: "We demand: That child-care facilities be established by law on the same basis as parks, libraries, and public schools, adequate to the needs of children from the pre-school years through adolescence, as a community resource to be used by citizens from all income levels.
Página 30 - American women are now engaged in gainful occupations; yet there is an almost complete dearth of data upon which to base any trustworthy conclusions as regards a subject as important as it is vast and complicated. There is need of full knowledge on which to base action looking toward State and municipal legislation for the protection of working women. The introduction of women into industry is working change and disturbance in the domestic and social life of the Nation. The decrease in marriage,...