Effects of the Recent Recession on the Labor Force Participation of Nonmetropolitan Women.

Autor/in	O'Leary, Jeanne M.
Titel	Effects of the Recent Recession on the Labor Force Participation of Nonmetropolitan Women.
Quelle	(1978), (26 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Business Cycles; Clerical Occupations; Demography; Economic Factors; Employed Women; Employment Opportunities; Females; Industrialization; Labor Force; Labor Force Development; Policy Formation; Rural Development; Rural Urban Differences; Service Occupations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Office occupations; Büroberuf; Demografie; Ökonomischer Faktor; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Weibliches Geschlecht; Industrialisation; Industrialisierung; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Arbeitskräftebestand; Politische Betätigung; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Dienstleistungsberuf
Abstract	Expanding work opportunities, changing family structure, double digit inflation, and relaxed attitudes toward the appropriateness of women's work outside the home have contributed to increased labor force participation of women in recent years. Recent studies indicate that despite traditional attitudes ascribed to rural areas, trends in increasing labor force participation apply to nonmetro as well as to metro area women. To a large extent, growth in nonmetro women's labor force participation can be attributed to the increased number of manufacturing firms in rural areas. Although fluctuating within the recessionary period, labor force participation of both metro and nonmetro area women continued to increase from 1973 through 1976. It was, however, the differences between metro and nonmetro areas in patterns of and underlying reasons for fluctuations throughout the cycle which will be important to policy makers; the composition of both the labor force and the occupational and industrial distribution of opportunities determined the variations. Nonmetro areas have witnessed tremendous increases in the number of women employed, but these increases have resulted in greater concentrations of females in clerical, operative, and service related occupations, often thought of as "dead end" jobs. Without attention to job training and skills development, women may become more heavily concentrated in those jobs which are characterized by lower levels of pay and little chance for advancement. (BR)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC