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Black Female Clerical Workers: Movement toward Equality with White Women?
Author(s) -
POWER MARILYN,
ROSENBERG SAM
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1993.tb01028.x
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , black women , occupational mobility , black female , black male , movement (music) , demographic economics , psychology , labour economics , gender studies , sociology , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , gene , aesthetics
This article examines the occupational mobility patterns of black and white female clerical workers from 1972 to 1980. Black women were initially concentrated in the lower‐paying clerical positions and were less likely than white women to leave for better jobs in other areas. Those black women who had relatively good clerical jobs tended not to rise any further and even experienced some difficulty in maintaining their occupational status. Education and training aided occupational mobility less for black women than for white women.