Indicators of Trends in the Status of American Women [by] Abbott L. Ferriss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferriss, Abbott Lamoyne, 1915-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States.

Women.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1971.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Assembles, collates, and analyzes data bearing on trends in American education.The author presents the basic data on school enrollment, retention, and attainment, indicating changes in the educational characteristics of the population and comparable time-series statistics on teachers and school finances reflecting change within the school system.

Contents:

Table of Contents ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Notes to the Series and Data Sources ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; Numerically ; Education ; Marital Status ; Fertility ; Labor Force Status ; Employment Status ; Income ; Organizational Membership ; Recreation ; Health ; Length of Life and Causes of Death ; Chapter 2. Changes in the Female Population ; The Female Population ; The Sex Ratio ; Female Immigrants ; Female Aliens Naturalized ; Summary of Indicators ; Key to Series Discussed in Chapter 2 ; Chapter 3. Trends in the Educational Status of Women

School Enrollment by Level and Age Enrollment of 18 and 19 Year Olds ; Educational Attainment by Age ; Cumulative Curves of Educational Attainment, the 20-24 Year Old Group ; Earned Degrees; Rates of Progression Through the Educational System ; Unemployment and Years of School Completed ; Summary of Indicators ; Key to Series Discussed in Chapter 3 ; Chapter 4. Indicators of Women's Marital Status ; Households ; Changes in the Marital Status of Women ; Broken Families ; Females with Sole Responsibility for the Family ; Summary of Indicators ; Key to Series Discussed in Chapter 4

Chapter 5. Trends in the Fertility of American Women Responsibility for Children ; Birth Rates by Live Birth Order ; Cumulative Live Births ; Age-Specific Fertility Rates ; Births Out of Wedlock ; Summary of Indicators ; Key to Series Discussed in Chapter 5 ; Chapter 6. Women Migrants ; Migration Through the Life Cycle and Distance ; Migration of 20-24 Year Olds ; Household Status and Marital Status ; Summary of Indicators ; Key to Series Discussed in Chapter 6 ; Chapter 7. Indicators of Women at Work ; An Overview ; Labor Force Participation and Age

Differences in Labor Force Participation by Age and Color Educational Attainment of the Labor Force, by Color and Sex ; Effect of Husband's Employment on the Work Rate of Wives ; Labor Force Participation by Marital Status and Age ; The Effect of the Presence of Children ; Effect of the Mother's Employment upon the Family ; The Occupations of Employed Women ; Prevalence of Women Employed by Occupation ; Occupational Distribution of Women ; Sexual Segregation in Occupations ; The Status of Occupations; Summary of Indicators ; Key to Series Discussed in Chapter 7

Chapter 8. Unemployment Indicators Unemployment in the Full-Time and Part-Time Labor Force ; Unemployment Rates by Age, Sex and Color ; Additional Data on Unemployment ; Summary of Indicators ; Key to Series Discussed in Chapter 8 ; Chapter 9. The Income Status of Women ; No Income and Median Money Income: An Overview ; Median Annual Earnings by Color and Sex ; Occupation and Income ; Income and Education ; Women with No Money Income ; Income of Families and Unrelated Individuals ; Families with Male or Female Heads ; Unrelated Individuals ; White and Negro Differences

Families and Persons below the Poverty Level

Notes:

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Bibliography: p. 433-451.

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ISBN:

1-61044-204-0

OCLC:

906809398