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Author: Riley, Teresa Marie
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1. Riley, Teresa Marie
The Impact of the Antidiscrimination Legislation on the Employment Status of Women
Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1984.
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Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Affirmative Action; Discrimination; Discrimination, Sex; Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO); Government Regulation; Legislation; Modeling, Probit; Occupational Segregation

This paper is a study of the effects of Title VII and Affirmative Action on the employment status of women. To investigate the enforcement effects of the antidiscrimination legislation, the determinants of the probability that a woman would be employed in a traditionally male occupation were studied for two different years. One of the years represented a period of lax enforcement and the other year represented a period of stricter enforcement. The NLS samples used in this study were stratified into four subsamples on the basis of age and race to control for the effects of race discrimination and prelabor market conditioning. Enforcement of the legislation was estimated on an industry wide basis. It was hypothesized that as enforcement increased within industries, employers would be more likely to hire women in traditionally male occupations. Probit analysis was used to estimate the effects of changes in enforcement on the probability that a woman would be hired for a traditionally male occupation. There was a statistically significant increase in the number of women employed in male occupations between the two years of the study. The results of the study, in general, do not support the hypothesis that, as enforcement increases on an industry wide basis, women are more likely to be employed in male occupations. The results do, however, indicate that enforcement activity has had an effect across industry groups.
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Riley, Teresa Marie. The Impact of the Antidiscrimination Legislation on the Employment Status of Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1984..