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Show 143 Women in the Labor Force cupation was weaver. Women weavers in the Nation averaged $1.86 (men, $1.91). As a group, women averaged 16 cents an hour less than men. The difference was 13 cents in the Southeast, 22 cents in New England, and 34 cents in the Middle Atlantic Region. Differences in average pay levels between women and men are partly the result of variations in the sex composition among plants and among jobs with divergent pay levels. Women's and misses' dre88e8.-Wage data were collected in March April 1963 from plants manufacturing women's and misses' dresses Nearly three-fifths of the estimated 93,000 (both sexes) covered in the wage survey were in New York City. Women production workers in New York num bered 40,150 and received the highest hourly earnings-$2.24; about one-third were paid $2.50 or more an hour (table 67). They received their lowest earnings in Dallas and Cleveland-$1.47 and $1.49, re spectively. The proportions of women paid less than $1.25 an hour were far larger in these 2 areas than in the other 10 centers surveyed: in 12 metropolitan areas. production workers in Dallas it was 24 percent and in Cleveland 22 percent. Table 67.-AvERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS Number of women production Metropolitan area Boston ______________________ Chicago _____________________ Cleveland Dallas ___________________ _______________________ Fall River and New Bedford Los Angeles-Long Beach Newark and Jersey City New York City Philadelphia St. Louis ___ ___ _______ ______ - ______________ Paterson-Clifton-Passaic _______ _________________ . ________________ Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton 1 IN WOMEN'S AND MISSES' DRESS INDUSTRY, BY SEX, 12 METROPOLITAN AREAS, MARCH-ApRIL 1963 ________ A verage hourly earnings 1 Percent of women receiving- Under $2.50 $1.25 and over 7.5 17.0 4.5 10.4 2.03 22. 1 2.4 1. 47 1. 78 23.7 1.6 1.16 1. 88 4.4 8.8 workers Women Men 1,731 2,351 $1. 91 $3. 12 1. 82 2.74 650 1. 49 2,417 5,225 5, 137 4, 193 40, 150 1,801 3,803 2,033 6,561 1. 93 2.62 8.9 18.6 2.00 3.07 6.4 21. 2 2.24 3.27 2.8 32.6 2.15 4.33 1.4 28.3 1. 87 2.42 4.2 13.5 1. 84 2.33 2.9 10.5 1. 72 1. 82 6.5 7.3 Excludes premium pay for overtime and for work on weekends, bolidays, and late shifts. and Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Industry Wage Survey-Women's Misses' Dresses, March-April 1963." Bull. No. 1391. January 1964. About three-fourths of the workers in the dress manufacturing in In the other areas studied were women. in New York dustry City the proportions ranged from five-sixths in Boston to more than nine tenths in six areas. 77i9-5.'5I5-66--11 |
