Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100747 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2003-11
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
This paper introduces and proposes a policy application for a new Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Index. The index is comprised of multiple measures of employers' human resource management outcomes and is designed to reflect employers' systemic EEO efforts. The index is applied to industry data from the Current Population Survey, and the tenets of Total Quality Management (TQM) theory are used for interpretation of results. It is found that the mining/construction industry provides a relatively inhospitable climate for women in the form, primarily, of a high degree of gender-related occupational segregation. The financial industry demonstrated the overall greatest gains for women during the 1990s. Closer examination of these industries with very good and very poor outcomes highlights the importance of addressing "special causes" of industry performance on the index.
Subjects: 
Discrimination in employment
Employment (Economic theory)
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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