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.
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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.
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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.