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Show Women's Income and Earnings 166 usually included in the base salaries reported. Since there is a small though growing percentage of stu dents, both women and men, who choose graduate school rather than employment, companies in some cases were also including free ad vanced college education as an added inducement. Although there is a growing acceptance of professional women in ment plans, were available but not industry, the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey indicated that women graduates not entering teaching still found employment primarily in social work, retailing, government, and nonprofit organizations. As among men graduates, women with technical training were in greatest demand, and women in almost all technical fields found no difficulty in locating jobs, especially if they had advanced degrees. Women with general liberal arts majors had the most difficulty in finding professional employment. Graduates with secretarial or clerical skills, on the other hand, found numerous employment oppor tunities available. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, women and men college graduates with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering who were being recruited for employment in these fields were gen erally offered the highest salaries'-$575 to $650 a month. Salaries offered new graduates with a major in mathematics ranged from $500 to $625 a month; those with a major in the physical sciences, from $550 to $625 a month. New graduates who majored in economics were offered salaries ·averaging about $525 a month. Graduates with a major in journalism, as well as liberal arts graduates with writing ability, were being offered approximately $400 a month. S:alary offers ranged from $425 to $600 a month for many business admin istration and liberal arts graduates for employment in personnel, advertising, and public relations work, as sales representatives, and as business trainees. Starting salaries for beginning elementary and secondary school teachers (the principal professional occupation of women) generally ranged from $3,300 00$5,500 a year, depending upon geographical loca tion. Secondary school teachers tended to receive offers in the higher end of the range. Salaries of beginning college teachers were gen erally between $6,500 and $7,500 for 9 months of full-time employment. In the Federal service entry salaries for a wide range of occupa tions were the same for all qualified college graduates in 1965. 'The en try salary 'as of October 1965 in most cases was $5,181 a year for grad uates in liberal arts, business administration, public 'administration, biological science, and social science. Outstanding graduates in these fields could begin at $6,269. The entry annual salary was $6,207 for holders of bachelor's degrees in scientific and technical fields. Those |
