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...issue of "sensitivity" predominates in discussions about why so many new women lawyers choose the low-pay and long hours of public service law. "It's definitely a sacrifice," says Alexander...
Monitor the math, watch the write-offs-or take a low-pay...
Women are still clustered in relatively low-pay, low-status jobs. In 1970, of all working women, 32% were classified as clerical employees and 14% as blue-collar operatives (semiskilled workers like packers, wrappers and sewing-machine operators). Women have had next to no success cracking some of the high-status professions. In 1970 they made up 28% of college faculties, about the same proportion as 40 years earlier. Some 6.3% of managers of manufacturing firms were women, slightly fewer than 20 years ago, and the percentage of women dentists, 3.5%, is little higher now than in 1910. The only...
Some economists dispute the overall importance of cheaper labor in other countries. Still, workers earning as little as 150 an hour have helped South Korea gain a big foothold in transistor manufacture-a business that is also growing in such low-pay spots as Hong Kong and Mexico. Foreign countries have grabbed half of the domestic movie-camera market, and all but two U.S. manufacturers (Kodak and Bell & Howell) have dropped out of the picture. Cummins now sells most of the diesel-engine output of its British plant in the U.S., while all of RCA's tape recorders...
...second great problem in jobs, which are still largely segregated. The government has taken on more Negroes, but most of them still labor in low-pay, low-status jobs. Hany complain that although they have remained in the very lowest government service classifications, they have trained whites who have risen to the highest levels...