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Title: Typing, Shorthand, and Occupational Assignments of Women: Some Black-White Differentials
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Roderick, Roger D. Shea, John R. |
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Typing, Shorthand, and Occupational Assignments of Women: Some Black-White Differentials Report, Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1972 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Employment; High School Completion/Graduates; Racial Differences; Urbanization/Urban Living; Vocational Education The purpose of the paper is to examine some of the factors that may help explain aggregate black-white differences in having had typing and/or shorthand while in high school, and in having used such training in occupations ostensibly requiring typing and/or shorthand skills. Data are from the NLS of Young Women, with the subsets under consideration consisting of those who were full-time employees and had completed exactly 12 years of high school. While urban/non-urban variation in typing-shorthand training was slight, black youth from the urban South were less likely to have such training than were black youth from urban non-South. A positive relationship was found between mental ability and exposure to typing and shorthand. In terms of occupational assignment, typing and shorthand training was directly related to occupancy of clerical jobs in general, but a small proportion of those with such training (especially among blacks) were in jobs most likely to actually require typing and shorthand skills. |
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Roderick, Roger D. and John R. Shea. "Typing, Shorthand, and Occupational Assignments of Women: Some Black-White Differentials." Report, Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1972. |