Volume 20, Number 4 (Fall) 1985
Eberts, Randall W., and Joe A. Stone. 1985. "Male-Female Differences in Promotions: EEO in Public Education." Journal of Human Resources 20(4):504-521.
Unlike previous investigations of employment-related discrimination, which deal almost exclusively with issues of compensation or occupation segregation, we examine discrimination in promotions. Specifically, we investigate gender differences in promotions to administrative positions in elementary and secondary public education and assess the influence of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity enforcement. Based upon longitudinal data for thousands of individual educators, discrimination complaints, and other related evidence for the states of Oregon and New York, we conclude that significant apparent discrimination present in the early 1970s declined by more than half by the late 1970s and that equal employment opportunity enforcement contributed to the decline.
The authors are members of the Economics faculty at the University of
Oregon. Stone has been on leave, serving as Senior Staff Economist for the
Council of Economic Advisers.
The preparation of this paper was made possible through an
Institutional Grant from the National Institute of Education to the Center for
Educational Policy and Management at the University of Oregon. The opinions
expressed in the paper do not necessarily reflect the positions or Policies of
NIE, the Department of Education, or the CEA. In addition, the authors are
indebted to Joseph Antos, Francine Blau, Charles Brown, Stephen Haynes, and two
anonymous referees for comments on an earlier draft.
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