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Affirmative Action Programs In Social Service Agencies: Status Of The Female M.S.W., Geraldine Ann Berg, Katy Blanche Danner, Eileen Nolan Kressel, Sharon E. La Haie, Ellen Mckeever, Petra Monteblanco, Joan Ann Plushnick, Carolyn V. Wood
Affirmative Action Programs In Social Service Agencies: Status Of The Female M.S.W., Geraldine Ann Berg, Katy Blanche Danner, Eileen Nolan Kressel, Sharon E. La Haie, Ellen Mckeever, Petra Monteblanco, Joan Ann Plushnick, Carolyn V. Wood
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Job status and salary inequities between men and women have only recently been documented (Kravetz 1976). The federal government, over the past few decades, through various acts and executive orders, has created legislation to prohibit discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion or national origin in all employment practices. The question is to what extent this legislation has permeated social service agencies and affected their employment patterns, particularly with respect to administrative positions.
In 1976, the Women's Issues Committee of the Oregon Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), addressed this question by initiating a study of social …