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Show Appendix GOVERNOR'S COMMITTEE ON THE II STATUS OF WOMEN FACT SHEET--UTAH STATISTICS Employment - lout 3 women - 43% of the women 1/2 families with incomes - - of of the partners working. 1970 total work force was - in .the are labor force. force. $7,000-15,000 have'both (excluding Agriculture and related jobs) The proportion 158,000 which included 134,000 women. continues - 15 years of age and up 18-65 are in the labor to rise. clerical, occupational groups: services, professional and technical, sales (over the counter), operatives. Of Mothers make up the largest group on the welfare rolls. the and and the mothers with 49,706 clients, aged children, handicapped make up the majority. But--women are clustered in 5 L In - spite of the Federal EOA of and the Governor's practices is women Executive 1964, the Utah EOA of 1965, promulgating fair labor Order in government, the average median income for 55% of the median income for men in similar occupations. Accounting clerks Class A: Women: Order Clerks Women: Non State equal-pay for equal-work $ 83 120 Men *- $114 132 Men: law. State minimum wage law covers only women The State Minimum is set differently for and minors, 3 different NOT men. zones and only 4 industries: restaurants, dry cleaning, laundries, and public housekeeping. Women are prohibited from working in mines and smelters. Women are prohibited from lifting and carrying items weighing 30 covers - - *- pounds or over. Married women Public schools--though the drop-out rate limited in serving as an executrix or administratrix. Education - for boys is higher girls, the unemployment rate for girls is higher. Boys have though short-sighted reasons for dropping out, but the g1rls reasons are emotional, rarely oriented beyond marriage or pregnancy. than that for pracica, |
