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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1978)
Study shows labor force still uneaual By RICHARD SEVEN Of the Emerald Women in the labor force may think they’ve come a long way, but actually they’ve made very little progress, according to two female researchers. The women, Jan Newton, economist for the Lane Economic Development Council and Sandy Gill, doctoral candidate in sociol ogy at the University, reported the status of female workers have im proved only slightly in the last 40 years. Their study, called “Women Workers in Oregon: A Portrait in Time,” was recently published by the Labor Educational Resource Center (LERC). Located in PLC. Although nearly half the work ing force in Oregon is made up of women, as compared with only 23 percent in 1940, sex segregation in employment has actually been increasing. They cite statistics showing half the women in the work force in 1948 were employed in clerical and service work. In 1970, the percentage had increased to 58 percent. Deady and Villard halls honored today as historical landmarks Two University halls will be offi cially designated national historic landmarks during a ceremony on campus this afternoon. The build ings, Deady and Villard Halls, will be the first buildings on campus to receive the national designation. The ceremony, which is set for 2:30 p.m. on the Old Campus quadrangle east of the two build ings, will include formal presenta tions from Gov. Bob Straub, Rus sell Dickerson, regional director of the Pacific Northwest Region, Na tional Park Service; Oswald Vil lard and Richard Brown, Univer sity professor of Northwest and Pacific history. Peter Murphy, member of the Secretary of the Interior’s Advis ory Board for National Park His toric Sites and Monuments, will serve as master of ceremonies. University Pres. William Boyd will Russian ‘Old Believers’ discussed at symposium Russian “Old Believers” are the topic of a University symposium today and Saturday. The Old Believer tradition is a defense of the Russian liturgy as it existed before Russian Orthodox Church reforms during the 17th century, according to German and Russian Prof. James Rice. Friday’s symposium topics in clude University of California His tory Prof. Robert Crummy speak ing on the early history of Old Be lievers at 2:30, and “Observations on Slavonic Book Culture” by Ed ward Kasinec, a nationally ac claimed expert from Harvard, at 4:00 p.m. Both take place in 216 Allen Hall. On Saturday, University Religi ous Studies Prof. Stephen Reynolds will lecture on the Rus sian Liturgical chant and Univer sity of California Prof. Hugh McLean will speak on Nikolai Les kov at 11 a.m. Both lectures will be in the EMU, room to be posted. The public service agencies and Oregon Old Believer Com munity workshop runs from 1:30 to 4:00 Saturday afternoon. It will feature a panel and public forum moderated by University History prof. Alan Kimball, in the EMU, room to be posted. TODAY EMU Food Service BEER GARDEN 4-7 p.m. 12 02. glass 350 pitcher $1.50/hotdogs 250 free popcorn Free Entertainment By ECLIPSE Taking a trip? See the rides in Classifieds also deliver brief welcoming re marks. Deady and Villard Halls were the first buildings constructed on the campus. Both buildings were entered into the national register of historic places in 1972 and were accepted as national historic landmarks in June, 1977. Paid ECHR, PO Box 402, Eugene OR 97440 Phil George Treasurer Thirty percent of Oregon’s female workers are in sales and service-related jobs, according to the study. Also, two-thirds of all female professional and technical workers are nurses and second ary teachers. The proportion of women in administrative positions remain stable between 1930 and 1970, the study says. More than half of these women occupy four occupa tions: buyers, small retail store and services managers and bank of ficers. These particular women are the victims of wide range gaps com pared with their male counter parts, the study continues. Me dian earnings for the women reach only 52 percent that of the men. The report also shows no change in the number of female blue collar workers between 1930 and 1970 (still 11 percent) and the number of women who were ad ministrators or managers dropped from seven percent in 1940 to five percent in 1970. However, the report says more opportunities for women profes sionals and technicians might ap pear in Oregon, because of in creasing female enrollments in fields such as medicine, law, vet erinary medicine and pharmacy. It also predicts women re entering the labor force will be able to find employment in health services, health professions and certain clerical occupations. However those two researchers point to “rough times ahead for both male and female workers.” They concluded that “the struc ture of occupations in America is permeated with sexism from top to bottom. This fact has changed very little since the 1940s.” Results of the study were re leased at a state-wide conference of trade union women held re cently at the University.
