Persistent Problems Demand Consistent Solutions: Evaluating Policies to Mitigate Occupational Segregation by Gender

Sharon H. Mastracci
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Sharon H. Mastracci: Graduate Program in Public Administration and Center for Urban Economic Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, 412 South Peoria Street, Suite 115 (M/C 278), Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA, mastracc@uic.edu

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2005, vol. 37, issue 1, 23-38

Abstract: This study focuses on two grant programs administered by the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor: the Non-Traditional Employment for Women (NEW) program and Women in Apprenticeships in Non-Traditional Occupations (WANTO). These two grant programs were created to increase the numbers of women in nontraditional fields, and this analysis seeks to determine whether they had effects on women’s participation in nontraditional occupations (NTOs): jobs where men dominate, usually blue-collar crafts and skilled trades, though not exclusively crafts and skilled trades. The study finds that WANTO and NEW substantially increased the chances that a woman obtained employment in an NTO.

Keywords: occupational segregation by gender; employment and training programs for women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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