Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...numbers mark distance traveled and distance yet to go. Eighty percent of all women who work hold down "pink-collar jobs" and get paid about 660 of a man's dollar. Seventy percent of all classroom teachers are women, yet for the same job, they make an average of $3,000 a year less than their male colleagues. More than a third of all candidates for M.B.A. degrees are women: the numbers encourage. Only 5% of the executives in the top 50 American companies are women: the numbers numb. Where once, even recently, there was nothing, all those statistics...
Advocates often showed a curious blend of naivete and arrogance. There was a failure initially to recruit nonworking and minority women. Nonprofessional pink-collar workers felt put down. Women who had "made it" economically also felt estranged. When it came to lobbying legislators, ERA supporters could be appallingly inept. In Illinois, a woman offered a legislator a $1,000 bribe. In Georgia, a state representative claimed that he had been propositioned in an effort to solicit his vote. And in Florida, pro-ERA workers banged on doors of legislators' homes at 7 a.m. to hand them literature, a state...
...that certain that the tradition-minded Saudis will want to move to Jubail in the first place. By and large, educated Saudis display a desire to remain in wealthy metropolises like Jidda, Riyadh and Dhahran, where easy money is to be found and white-collar jobs are plentiful. Yet to equip less-educated and poorer Saudis for the employment challenges of Jubail will take many years of social development that is now only in its earliest stages...
...city councilors, many of whom represent areas particularly hard hit by unemployment, have voiced dissatisfaction with the employment plans proposed by these essentially white collar firms. One such program submitted recently to the council by one of the DNA firms was rejected outright by several councilors as inadequate. "We need to control what kind of industries come into the city." says Councilor David Sullivan. "I'm not suggesting that we bring in a steel plant, but we could have a technology manufacturing plant that makes for example, computer chips...
Studies conducted by the Massachusetts Department of Manpower Development shows that statewide, high technology business such as the computer electronics, and industrial chemical industries are expanding at a tremendous rate and that many supply jobs for a variety of white and blue collar positions, with excellent opportunities for advancement...